Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 9-Nov-1951
Hometown: Newark, New Jersey
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 21-Nov-1968
Start of tour: 14-Nov-1969
Incident date: 17-Sep-1970
Date of casualty: 17-Sep-1970
Age at death: 18
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Walter Wesley Hutton was killed while on a combat operation when a booby trap detonated. / On search and clear mission. Detonated hostile booby trap, and engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Walter Wesley Hutton
SP4 Ronald Lester Huxtable
PFC John Richard Tamburri Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 795 276
Place of interment: Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, New York, USA
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