Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1204 – Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device, 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: Regular
Date of birth: 19-Mar-1944
Hometown: Benton, Arkansas
Marital status: Married to Carol A. Hoover
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 29-May-1966
Start of tour: 13-Jul-1967
Incident date: 27-Sep-1967
Date of casualty: 27-Sep-1967
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Thomas Lee Hoover died as the result of multiple fragment wounds received when the military vehicle in which he was passenger his a hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Quang Tin, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Tull, Arkansas, USA
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