Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1204 – Armored Reconnaissance 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
Commission Source: Armor OCS Class 14-67 H1, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Date of birth: 23-Oct-1938
Hometown: Spokane, Washington
Marital status: Married to Loberta I. Hines, two sons, two daughters
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 15-Mar-1968
Incident date: 24-Aug-1968
Date of casualty: 24-Aug-1968
Age at death: 29
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Leslie Edmund Hines III died from wound received while on a combat operation when came under hostile fire.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
1LT Leslie Edmund Hines III
SP4 Lewis Sylvester Nance
PFC Ivan Lorenza Vincent Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 764 100*
Place of interment: Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Washington, USA
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