Rank: Corporal
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 76S – Vehicle Materiel Supply Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 8-Jun-1950
Hometown: Millbrook, Alabama
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Sep-1969
Start of tour: 5-Feb-1970
Incident date: 1-Apr-1970
Date of casualty: 1-Apr-1970
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
John Lee Smith was killed while at an artillery firing position when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At fire support base (FSB). Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Kenneth Ray Hodge
CPL John Lee Smith
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 037 792
Place of interment: Goodship Cemetery, Millbrook, Alabama, USA
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