Rank: Sergeant
Unit: I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 94B – Food Service Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 16-Jan-1945
Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 1-Aug-1967
Incident date: 29-Apr-1968
Date of casualty: 29-Apr-1968
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Arthur Lee Jordan died from metal fragment wound received while in command post when hit by fragments from hostile mortar round. He was hospitalized at the 12th Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi, and placed on the Very Seriously Injured (VSI) list on 29 Apr 1968 and later expired.
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Graceland West Cemetery and Mausoleum, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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