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: Selected Service
Date of birth: 16-Oct-1946
Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Dec-1966
Start of tour: 21-May-1967
Incident date: 15-Dec-1967
Date of casualty: 15-Dec-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Kenneth Cushen died from wound received while a passenger in a military vehicle on a combat operation when vehicle hit a hostile mine. He was admitted to a military hospital and placed on the very seriously injury (VSI) list immediately, where he expired shortly thereafter.
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Beaverdale Memorial Park, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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