Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 1193 – Field Artillery Unit Commander
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 5-Dec-1943
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 9-Feb-1967
Date of casualty: 9-Feb-1967
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Vehicle Crash (MC). Vehicle loss or crash.
Michael Fredrick Scott was passenger in a military vehicle on night road movement when vehicle went off bridge into water.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
CPL Charles Clifford Harding Jr
1LT Michael Fredrick Scott
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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