Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
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: 10-Jun-1947
Hometown: Gay, Georgia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 29-Sep-1965
Start of tour: 1-Nov-1969
Incident date: 23-Jan-1970
Date of casualty: 23-Jan-1970
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Donald Jerome Rice was killed while on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / On ambush patrol mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Frank Dale Hammond
SP4 Donald Jerome Rice
Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam, XU 953 272
Place of interment: Hillview East Cemetery, LaGrange, Georgia, USA
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