Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: L 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 13-Dec-1947
Hometown: Dewey, Oklahoma
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 8-May-1968
Start of tour: 25-Oct-1968
Incident date: 18-Feb-1969
Date of casualty: 18-Feb-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Virgil Carlyle Combs died from wounds received while driver of a military vehicle on combat operation when hit by fragments from hostile grenade. / Driver of APC on reconnaissance in force mission when hit by fragments from hostile rocket propelled grenade (RPG).
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Virgil Carlyle Combs
SGT Robert Irwin Meeker
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 742 225
Place of interment: Dewey Cemetery, Dewey, Oklahoma, USA
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