Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: M Company, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 4-Sep-1948
Hometown: Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 24-Jan-1967
Start of tour: 23-Jan-1968
Incident date: 29-Aug-1968
Date of casualty: 29-Aug-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Accident. Accidental homicide. Other Accident.
(Individual transported to 93rd Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, where he expired.)
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Poplar Bluff City Cemetery, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA
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