Assigned to Battery C, 4th Bn, 77th Artillery, 101st Airborne Division.
On the night of March 3, 1970 he was a passenger aboard a UH-1H helicopter (tail number 68-15571) belonging to Headquarters Battery, 4/77, and assigned as part of a security detail being flown to LZ Sally. The aircraft departed Camp Evans and was observed by infantry in the field to be flying southwest toward a ridge. The aircraft crashed into the ridge resulting in the loss of all aboard.
Also lost were:
CW2 Richard V. Pawlak, B battery 4/77
WO1 Jared Bruce Walding, HHB 4/77
SP4 George G. Karr
SP4 Paul Douglas Brummet
The enlisted men were all assigned to C Battery, 4/77.
Assigned to Battery C, 4th Bn, 77th Artillery, 101st Airborne Division.
On the night of March 3, 1970 he was a passenger aboard a UH-1H helicopter (tail number 68-15571) belonging to Headquarters Battery, 4/77, and assigned as part of a security detail being flown to LZ Sally. The aircraft departed Camp Evans and was observed by infantry in the field to be flying southwest toward a ridge. The aircraft crashed into the ridge resulting in the loss of all aboard.
Also lost were:
CW2 Richard V. Pawlak, B battery 4/77
WO1 Jared Bruce Walding, HHB 4/77
SP4 George G. Karr
SP4 Paul Douglas Brummet
The enlisted men were all assigned to C Battery, 4/77.