Rank: Private First Class
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: 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: 28-Jan-1945
Hometown: Port Arthur, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 28-Oct-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 29-Dec-1966
Date of casualty: 29-Dec-1966
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Other explosive device.
Herbert James Gabriel was passenger in armored personnel (AP) carrier which hit hostile mine, exploded and burned while on combat operation. / Passenger in an armored personnel carrier (APC) when the vehicle hit a hostile land mine and vehicle exploded and burned.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Herbert James Gabriel
SP4 Alejandro Garcia Jr
Location of fatality: South Vietnam
Place of interment: Johnson Memorial Park Cemetery, Groves, Texas, USA
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