Rank: Sergeant
Unit: M Company, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 6-Sep-1949
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 16-Aug-1968
Start of tour: 23-Jul-1969
Incident date: 7-Sep-1969
Date of casualty: 18-Sep-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Anthony Standifer died as a result of wounds received while a crew member of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. He was admitted to a military medical facility and later expired. / Loader on tank on reconnisance in force mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight. Individual admitted to 93rd Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, on 7 Sept 1969 at 2155 hrs and placed on Special Category list on 8 Sept 1969 at 1930 hrs. (Individual was transferred to 106th General Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, where he later expired.)
Three Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SGT Leo Francis Hartsuff
SGT Anthony Standifer
SSG Richard Jackson Swiger
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 711 838
Place of interment: Detroit Memorial Park East, Warren, Michigan, USA
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