Rank: Captain
Unit: 541st Military Intelligence Detachment, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 9666 – Counterintelligence Officer
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 7-Mar-1939
Hometown: Abilene, Texas
Marital status: Married to Kay C. Whitehouse, two daughters
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 29-Apr-1967
Incident date: 6-Mar-1968
Date of casualty: 6-Mar-1968
Age at death: 28
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Gregory Kent Whitehouse died from injury received while passenger on military vehicle which hit hostile mine. / (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao.)
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Charles Henry Batozynski
SP4 Jerry Allen Beatty
SP4 Floyd McFadden
SP4 John Bernard Shank
CPT Gregory Kent Whitehouse
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YS 433 943*
Place of interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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