Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
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
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 25-Oct-1949
Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida
Marital status: Married to Sharol W. Bullard, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Jan-1968
Start of tour: 30-Jun-1968
Incident date: 11-Jan-1969
Date of casualty: 11-Jan-1969
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Thomas Carl Bullard died from wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. / Individual on reconnaissance in force mission when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Thomas Carl Bullard
SP4 Charles Keith Day
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 765 805
Place of interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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