Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 3rd platoon leader
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 3-Jul-1948
Hometown: Kingston, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 11-Jul-1967
Start of tour: 16-Jul-1969
Incident date: 4-Nov-1969
Date of casualty: 4-Nov-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Individual was killed while at aircraft landing zone when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At landing zone. Came under hostile rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack.
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam, YU 135 073
Place of interment: Saint Marys Cemetery, Kingston, New York, USA
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