Rank: Private First Class
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11K
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 11-Mar-1947
Hometown: San Pedro, California
Marital status: Married to Gwendoly A. Cigar
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 18-Jul-1966
Start of tour: 29-Jul-1967
Incident date: 5-May-1968
Date of casualty: 5-May-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Freddie Joe Cigar died from gunshot wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao, where he expired.)
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Peter Brum
PFC Freddie Joe Cigar
SP4 Garland Gene Haley
PSGT Glenn Edward Nicholson
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, YS 465 923*
Place of interment: Lincoln Memorial Park, Carson, California, USA
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