Rank: Second Lieutenant
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1193 – Field Artillery Unit Commander
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Forward Observer attached to E Troop, 2/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Reserve
Date of birth: 19-Oct-1945
Hometown: Bowling Green, Missouri
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Jan-1968
Start of tour: 2-Jun-1969
Incident date: 12-Aug-1969
Date of casualty: 12-Aug-1969
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
David Stephen Deters was killed while in base camp when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At base camp when came under hostile rocket attack.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 730 070
Place of interment: Saint Clement Cemetery, Saint Clement, Missouri, USA
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