Rank: Private First Class
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 20-Dec-1944
Hometown: Marion, Indiana
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 21-Dec-1961
Start of tour: 6-Apr-1967
Incident date: 3-Sep-1967
Date of casualty: 3-Sep-1967
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Other Accident. Other accident.
Donald Earl Cutler was getting ready to go to sleep inside of an armored personnel carrier when he was hit by metal fragments from a friendly claymore mine which accidentally detonated inside the vehicle.
Location of fatality: South Vietnam
Place of interment: Grant Memorial Park, Marion, Indiana, USA
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