Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct 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: Regular
Date of birth: 29-Aug-1942
Hometown: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Oct-1962
Start of tour: 25-Aug-1968
Incident date: 26-Feb-1969
Date of casualty: 26-Feb-1969
Age at death: 26
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Thomas Victor Pilson died from wounds received while commander of a military vehicle on a combat operation when engaged a hostile force in firefight. / Track commander on Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Thomas Victor Pilson
SP5 Jimmie Ray Tice
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 821 431
Place of interment: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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