Rank: Private First Class
Unit: K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 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
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 18-Jul-1949
Hometown: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Married to Kathy R. Moylan
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 7-Oct-1969
Start of tour: 21-Apr-1970
Incident date: 26-Jun-1970
Date of casualty: 26-Jun-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
David John Moylan was killed while at a defensive position when the area came under mortar attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position (NDP). Received hostile mortar attack.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Wesley Charles Howley Jr
PFC David John Moylan
SP4 Lawrence Lee Petersen
PFC Melvin Lewis Pullen
Location of fatality: Cambodia, XU 439 141
Place of interment: Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA
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