Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Scout section
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 9-Apr-1951
Hometown: Norman, Oklahoma
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 1-Apr-1969
Start of tour: 8-Oct-1969
Incident date: 8-May-1970
Date of casualty: 8-May-1970
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Larry Gene Morgan was killed while a driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a mine detonated. / Driver of Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle (ACAV) on reconnaissance mission. Vehicle detonated hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 661 842
Place of interment: IOOF Cemetery, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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