Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11C – Indirect Fire Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 15-Aug-1949
Hometown: Culpeper, Virginia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 14-May-1969
Start of tour: 11-Oct-1969
Incident date: 25-Mar-1970
Date of casualty: 25-Mar-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Other Accident. Other accident.
Floyd Burnett Coates was killed while at an artillery firing position when a mortar round exploded. / Gunner on a mortar team at fire support base, firing H&I mission. Round exploded in mortar tube.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Walter Eugene Andrews Jr
SP4 Floyd Burnett Coates
SGT Joseph Wakefield Jr
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 098 768
Place of interment: Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia, USA
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