3d BCD, Korea, honors association chapter namesake.On 9 February 2002, the 3d Battlefield Coordination Detachment An Army liaison provided by the Army component or force commander to the air operations center (AOC) and/or to the component designated by the joint force commander to plan, coordinate, and deconflict air operations. (BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) The storage of numbers in which each decimal digit is converted into binary and is stored in a single character or byte. For example, a 12-digit number would take 12 bytes. See binary numbers. ), Korea, and VFW Post 180 hosted the Hill 180 Memorial Ceremony. The 500 attendees included COL Lewis L. Millett Lewis L. Millett (born 1920) was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge. Millett was born in Mechanic Falls, Maine in 1920 and was a 1949 graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. , US Army, Retired, and GEN Thomas A. Schwartz Thomas Allen Schwartz is a retired United States Army four star general who commanded the United States Army Forces Command from 1998 to 1999 and United States Forces Korea from 1999 to 2002. Military career Schwartz was born on March 7, 1945, in St. Paul, Minnesota. , CG, USFK USFK United States Forces, Korea (US DoD) . The annual ceremony honors those brave American soldiers who fought, and especially those who died for freedom on Hill 180, more than 51 years ago. On 7 February 1951, then CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To Lewis L. Millett, Easy Company, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was leading his company and two tanks toward Hill 180. Chinese troops, who occupied the hill[s] crest, opened fire. Millett leaped onto a tank and began returning fire with its .50-caliber machine gun. The gun jammed. Millett raced through heavy fire to his 1St Platoon and ordered his soldiers to [ ] Fix bayonets! We[ ]re going up that hill! [ ] Millett led the charge so far in front of his men that he had to dodge grenades thrown by both sides. Although seriously wounded in the back and legs by grenade fragments, he continued to urge his men onward shouting, [ ] Kill [ ] em with the bayonet! [ ] Jumping into a trench near the hill[s] crest, he killed three Chinese soldiers with his own bayonet. When the fight ended, E Company had taken the hill and nearly 100 enemy soldiers lay dead, at least 30 of them killed by bayonets. Only nine US soldiers were killed. CPT Millett received the Congressional Medal of Honor Congressional Medal of Honor n. The highest U.S. military decoration, awarded in the name of Congress to members of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery beyond the call of duty in action against an enemy. Noun 1. from President Truman at the White House on 5 July 1951. The 3d BCD and VFW Post 180 hold an annual ceremony to honor the participants in this fierce battle. Following the ceremony, which included a wreath laying at the Hill 180 monument, a flyover by eight AH-64 Apache helicopters, a rifle salute and taps, the 3d BCD dedicated the COL Lewis L. Millett Memorial Room in the unit[s] headquarters. The FA Association charter for the recently formed Millett Chapter adorns the conference room wall. COL Millett took particular pride in pointing out the fact that he was a field artilleryman who served as a forward observer in World War II and Korea prior to taking command of E Company. The chapter hosted the First Annual Cold Steel Run the day after the ceremony, and COL Millett presented the awards. The COL Lewis L. Millett Chapter[s] president is COL Mark A. Graham. |
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