Rank: Sergeant
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 45G – Fire Control Repairer
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart 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: 2-Sep-1948
Hometown: Port Neches, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 14-Nov-1967
Start of tour: 21-Jul-1968
Incident date: 29-Apr-1969
Date of casualty: 29-Apr-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Elmer Lynn Spivey was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when vehicle struck a mine. / Passenger on Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) returning to night defensive position (NDP) when vehicle hit hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP5 Larry Howard Brinkey
SGT Elmer Lynn Spivey
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 893 308
Place of interment: Oak Bluff Memorial Park, Port Neches, Texas, USA
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