Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 17K – Ground Surveillance Radar Crewman
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: Selected Service
Date of birth: 27-Aug-1947
Hometown: Bakersfield, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 29-Nov-1967
Start of tour: 4-Dec-1968
Incident date: 19-Jun-1969
Date of casualty: 19-Jun-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Calvin Gene Hunt was killed while at a night defensive position when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position. Came under hostile rocket attack.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
1LT Richard Wilson Cole
SP4 Calvin Gene Hunt
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 814 908
Place of interment: Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, California, USA
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