Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 94B – Food Service Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 5-Aug-1968
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 7-Mar-1939
Hometown: North Platte, Nebraska
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 2-Dec-1958
Incident date: 18-May-1969
Date of casualty: 18-May-1969
Age at death: 30
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of illness/injury. Vehicle Crash (MC). Vehicle loss or crash.
Thomas Gabriel Soto died as a result of injuries received while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when it collided with another vehicle and overturned. / Passenger on 1 1/2 ton truck on resupply mission when vehicle was sideswiped by another vehicle and overturned as it left the road. Individual admitted to 93d Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, on 8 May 1969 at 1340 hrs, and later expired. Incident occurred on 8 May 1969 at 1330 hrs.
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 090 085
Place of interment: Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, Nebraska, USA
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