Rank: Private First Class
Unit: 84th ENG Co, 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment attached to the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 12B10 – Combat Engineer
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal with V, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal with 2 Stars, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Suadia Arabia), Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Date of birth: 9 January 1971
Hometown: Battle Creek, Michigan
Campaign: Operation Desert Storm
Died: 26 February 1991
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Killed in action – land mine
Location of fatality: Iraq
Place of interment: Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan
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Notes: Died clearing land mines for the Regiment’s Movement to Contact against the Iraqi Army.