Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: 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: Selected Service
Date of birth: 10-May-1946
Hometown: Cottongim, Kentucky
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Aug-1966
Start of tour: 6-Aug-1967
Incident date: 23-Feb-1968
Date of casualty: 23-Feb-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
David Isom died from injury received while passenger in a military vehicle when the vehicle hit a hostile mine. / (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao, where he later expired.)
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YT 447 003*
Place of interment: Engine Cemetery, Bluehole, Kentucky, USA
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