Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 64B – Heavy Vehicle Driver
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 1-Nov-1941
Hometown: Ashdown, Arkansas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Jun-1967
Incident date: 6-Mar-1968
Date of casualty: 6-Mar-1968
Age at death: 26
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Floyd McFadden died from wound received while a passenger in a military vehicle when vehicle hit a hostile mine. / (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao.)
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Charles Henry Batozynski
SP4 Jerry Allen Beatty
SP4 Floyd McFadden
SP4 John Bernard Shank
CPT Gregory Kent Whitehouse
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YS 433 943*
Place of interment: Williamston Cemetery, Idabel, Oklahoma, USA
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