While assigned to Detachment A, NAVFAC Danang, with Company L, Marine Support Battalion, both men were killed when their CH-46 helicopter crashed in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. CTC Gates remains the only U.S. Navy cryptologist whose name appears on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. MGySgt Storm is honored alongside ten other Marine cryptologists from the 1st Radio Battalion who were killed in action in Vietnam and whose names are also inscribed on the Wall.