Career
In honor of him, Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School was built in 2005 in Tucson, Arizona. Lauffer joined the Army from Phoenix, Arizona in 1962, and by September 21, 1966 was serving as a private first class in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division. Lauffer, aged 20 at his death, was buried at Murray Memorial Gardens in his birth city of Murray, Kentucky.
Reacting instinctively, Seeing this and his wounded comrades helpless in the open.