Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart 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-Mar-1948
Hometown: Spokane, Washington
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 25-Oct-1965
Start of tour: 23-Sep-1969
Incident date: 26-Mar-1970
Date of casualty: 26-Mar-1970
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Norman Howard Strength was killed while at a night defensive position when a booby trap detonated. / At night defensive position (NDP). Detonated hostile booby trap.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SSG David Robertson Nash
SP4 Norman Howard Strength
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 708 365
Place of interment: Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Washington, USA
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