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: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 8-Nov-1947
Hometown: Russellville, Alabama
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 27-Jun-1967
Start of tour: 23-Nov-1967
Incident date: 20-Jun-1968
Date of casualty: 20-Jun-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Robert Lewis McGee Jr died from metal fragment wounds received while at command post during hostile mortar attack. / (Individual transported to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh.)
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Phil Campbell, Alabama, USA
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