Rank: Private First Class
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 24-Jan-1947
Hometown: Swainsboro, Georgia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Oct-1967
Start of tour: 10-Apr-1968
Incident date: 16-May-1968
Date of casualty: 16-May-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Eugene Green died from wounds received while on combat operation when hit by fragments from hostile projectile.
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 599 069*
Place of interment: Swainsboro City Cemetery, Swainsboro, Georgia, USA
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