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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: Specialist Four Floyd Burnett Coates
Additional Description: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry, USARV, United States Army.

August 15, 1949 to March 25, 1970

Floyd was born in Culpeper Virginia in 1969. He was drafted into the army by the Charlottesville / Albemarle County Draft Board. He was trained as an Indirect Fire Infantryman (Mortar Man). He arrived in Vietnam October 11, 1969. As a member of an 81mm mortar crew, Spec 4 Coates was killed March 25, 1970 when a mortar round exploded in the tube in Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam.

He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Specialist Four Coates is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper Virginia.
Submitted: April 15, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380278
File Size: 0.906 Megabytes

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