Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1203 – Tank Unit Commander
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Reserve
Date of birth: 31-Jan-1947
Hometown: Kokomo, Indiana
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 22-Jun-1968
Start of tour: 28-Jun-1969
Incident date: 12-Aug-1969
Date of casualty: 12-Aug-1969
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Jonathan Paul Hash was killed while commander of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Track commander of Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Marcello Nunez Barrios
1LT Jonathan Paul Hash
SGT Larry Roman Schmidt
SGT Christopher Cutler Webster
SP4 Larry Jay Wheeler
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 784 814
Place of interment: Lebanon Cemetery, Nelsonville, Arkansas, USA
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