Then in January 1967 he participated in Operation Cedar Falls in Phuoc Tuy Province. In Operation Cedar Falls, Rushing was firing the machine gun at the snipers in the trees of the jungles. The captain of the platoon had sent a personal carrier to the side where the platoon was shooting, and when Rushing had signaled the personal carrier, he was shot by a sniper in the trees on February 14, 1967. |