ALBERTO RUIZ

ALBERTO RUIZ
Full Name: Ruiz, Alberto
Home Town: LONG WOOD AVENUE,SOUTH BRONX, NEW YORK
Service Rank: Private 1st Class (promoted to Specialist-4 in episode 40, "The Ties That Blind").
Medals/Citations:
National Defence Service Medal awarded to all who serve in the active US Military ,for longer than 90 days during wartime.
Combat Infantry Badge- ** See further details on medals page
2 X  Bronze Star 
awarded once in episode 21, "The Hill", For rescuing comrads in Battling Baker Brothers
and once in episode 45, "Thanks for the Memories",with Oak Leaf Cluster, - (for the mission in "Cloud Nine")"for heroism in connection with ground operations against hostile forces in the Republic of Vietnam"
Purple Heart
Wounded : Shot , recieved a grazed head in the episode "Siagon" shot by the lady radio DJ.
And he sits on a nail in "Notes from The Underground" if that counts as wounded.
First Appearance: Episode 1, "Tour of Duty-Premiere Episode
Last Appearance: Episode 58, "Payback"
**notes:Ruiz gets a tattoo while on R&R in hawaii in the episode "Soldiers" it says "Born To Kill"
His father split when " he was still sucking on a nipple"
When he was ten he found his cousin dead from heroin, the body had been lying there for 1 1/2 days.
He had an uncle called "the Chicken Man".
He hates rats , likes cars.
After returning from Vietnam. He gets a job working in a warehouse.

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