LTC Barney K. Neal Jr

LTC Barney King Neal Jr

Commanding Officer 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

Killed In Action 09/11/70

LTC Barney Neal was the Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion for only a short time, when the helicopter
in which he was a passenger, crashed upon leaving Firebase Winnie.

Those who knew him recall him to have been an excellent Commanding Officer, and a genuinely likeable Soldier.

The following are the entries in the Official Army Register for Barney K. Neal Jr.:

Barney King Neal Jr. was born in Georgia on July 4, 1928.

He graduated from Oklahoma A&M College in 1950. He became a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry on July 17, 1950
(with his date of rank back to June 15, 1950). He was promoted to the temporary rank of 1st Lieutenant (AUS)
on April 27, 1951 and to the permanent rank of 1st Lieutenant in the Regular Army on June 15, 1953.

On August 16, 1954 he was promoted to the temporary rank of Captain (AUS). In 1956 Neal graduated from
the Infantry School Officers Advanced Course. He received his permanent promotion to Captain on June 15, 1957.

He was promoted to the temporary rank of Major (AUS) on March 26, 1965 and to the permanent rank of Major
on March 29, 1966. On May 13, 1968 Neal was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

He received the Bronze Star Medal.

The following is the report of the crash in which LTC Barney Neal was killed:

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