Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Good Conduct 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: Regular
Date of birth: 31-Jul-1949
Hometown: Fisher, Louisiana
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 25-Mar-1968
Start of tour: 21-Aug-1968
Incident date: 4-Jul-1969
Date of casualty: 4-Jul-1969
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Ambrose Gassaway was killed while a crew member of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Driver on Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) on combat mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Ambrose Gassaway
SP4 Raymond Lee Pirrman
SFC Jimmy Don West
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 633 101
Place of interment: New Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery, Many, Louisiana, USA
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