Rank: Specialist 5
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
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: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP)
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 28-Jan-1947
Hometown: Doran, Virginia
Marital status: Married to Ruth J. Wright
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 3-Dec-1965
Start of tour: 24-Jan-1968
Incident date: 18-Apr-1968
Date of casualty: 18-Apr-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Drowning. Drowned, suffocated.
Grover C. Wright Jr died from drowning while on combat operation swimming across river, looking for possible crossing site for his unit.
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 256 276*
Place of interment: Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richlands, Virginia, USA
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