Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 9-Oct-1949
Hometown: Savannah, Georgia
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 27-Apr-1969
Start of tour: 20-Oct-1969
Incident date: 21-Jun-1970
Date of casualty: 21-Jun-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Other Accident. Other accident.
Burder Smith Athey III was killed while on a military mission when struck by a falling tree. / On dismounted security patrol for Rome Plows. Hit on the head by a falling tree.
Location of fatality: Cambodia, XU 483 002
Place of interment: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Savannah, Georgia, USA
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