Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: I Troop, 3rd 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: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 5-Nov-1947
Hometown: Long Beach, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 12-Jan-1966
Start of tour: 17-Jul-1967
Incident date: 8-May-1968
Date of casualty: 8-May-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Clint Collins died from wounds received while on combat operation when hit by fragments from a hostile rocket.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cypress), Cypress, California, USA
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