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Neil
Brown
Brown
PFC · · 11B10 · Infantryman
KIA
In-Country Service
1969-01-20 –
Home of Record
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT
Character of Service
Honorable
Archive Status
Active
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1969-01-20
Arrived
Arrived in Vietnam — January 20, 1969
PFC Neil Brown began his tour in the Republic of Vietnam with 1st Cavalry Division, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, D Company.
1969-05-02
Incident
Killed in action — May 2, 1969
PFC Brown was killed on 2 May 1969 during Operation Montana Raider in War Zone C (Tay Ninh province), while serving with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry. A fellow trooper's account recalls "an explosion on 2May69, followed by a brief firefight in which Neil Brown was killed"; afterward John Lee (Range, 68–69) and Chuck Hustedt carried him out of very thick bush. PFC Brown was 24 years old. (See Chuck Hustedt's account, linked under Documents.)
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