Rank: Private First Class
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 8-Mar-1947
Hometown: Ruffsdale, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 19-Jun-1967
Incident date: 15-Aug-1967
Date of casualty: 15-Aug-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Earl Wayne Long was a passenger in an Armored Personnel Carrier on a combat operation when the vehicle hit a hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC William Emanuel Baker
PFC Earl Wayne Long
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Westmoreland County Memorial Park, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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