Rank: Sergeant
Unit: K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: 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: 5-Jun-1948
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 14-Oct-1969
Start of tour: 8-Nov-1970
Incident date: 27-Dec-1970
Date of casualty: 27-Dec-1970
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Carver Joe Frank Vaughan was killed while setting up a night defensive position when a mine placed by a hostile force detonated. / Setting up night defensive position (NDP), detonated hostile mine.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Raymond Clyde Holt
SGT Jack William McCann
SGT Carver Joe Frank Vaughan
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 999 324
Place of interment: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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