Rank: Specialist
Unit: 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 19E – M48-M60 ARMOR CREWMAN
Date of birth: 4 February 1959
Hometown: Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Campaign: Cold War
Died: 25 Jan 1982
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Died from head injury that occurred during a training mission when the M-60A3 he was driving broke through foot-thick ice on a farm pond covered in snow.
Location of fatality: Dietersberg, Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria, Germany
Place of interment: Saint Josephs Cemetery in Cumberland, Rhode Island
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