Rank: Specialist
Unit: 214th MP Co, 14th MP Brigade attached to the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 31B – Military Police
Awards: Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal with 2 Stars, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M device, Army Service Ribbon , Kuwait Liberation Medal (Suadia Arabia), Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Badges: Marksmanship with Rifle, Pistol
Deployments: 1 Desert Storm
Date of birth: 18 March 1970
Hometown: Alexander City, Alabama
High School: Benjamin Russell High School
Married: Misty T. Jarrell
Campaign: Operation Desert Storm
Died: 3 March 1991
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Accident – Small Arms Fire
Location of fatality: Saudi Arabia
Place of interment: Hillview Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Alexander City, Alabama
Notes: Witness to the death stated, “They were sitting in a jeep, him and another boy, and the other boy was cleaning his rifle and it discharged and hit Randy in the chest”
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