Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 21-Dec-1944
Hometown: Santa Fe Springs, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 7-Sep-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 17-Apr-1967
Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1967
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Jose Hernandez Quintero was in a convoy when the convoy came under hostile mortar attack.
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
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