Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 67N – Utility Helicopter Repairer
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Air Medal with Five Oak Leaf Clusters, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Crew member
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 20-Mar-1949
Hometown: Amarillo, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 25-Aug-1967
Incident date: 5-May-1968
Date of casualty: 5-May-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Garland Gene Haley died from fragment wound received while crewman on military helicopter on combat operation when hit by hostile ground fire, aircraft did not crash or burn. He was admitted to a military hospital in Vietnam, where he later expired. / (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao, where he expired.)
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Peter Brum
PFC Freddie Joe Cigar
SP4 Garland Gene Haley
PSGT Glenn Edward Nicholson
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Texas, USA
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