Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 63C – General Vehicle Repairman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 23-Aug-1949
Hometown: Winfield, Kansas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 28-Dec-1966
Start of tour: 25-Aug-1967
Incident date: 26-Apr-1968
Date of casualty: 26-Apr-1968
Age at death: 18
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Steven Clinton Heffner died from metal fragment wound while on night perimeter defense when area came under hostile mortar attack. / (Individual transported to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh.)
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Rogers Bennett
SP4 Steven Clinton Heffner
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, YT 313 264
Place of interment: Highland Cemetery, Winfield, Kansas, USA
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