Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation 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: Selected Service
Date of birth: 1-Feb-1950
Hometown: Barboursville, Virginia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 9-Mar-1970
Start of tour: 1-Aug-1970
Incident date: 17-Apr-1971
Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1971
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Gary Lee Reynolds was killed while on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Individual enroute to night defensive position (NDP), engaged enemy at a bunker complex in firefight. (Vehicle hit by rocket propelled grenade (RPG) which exploded.)
Five Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SGT Willis Norwood Andrews
SP4 Fidencio Flores Jr
1LT Phillip Lewis Lee
SP5 George James Orr
SP4 Gary Lee Reynolds
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 523 316
Place of interment: Sprouse Family Cemetery, Barboursville, Virginia, USA
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