FORT SILL, Okla. (KSWO) – The U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School held a memorial ceremony last week for Sgt. Mitchell William Stout, the only air defense artilleryman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Ceremony draws more than 250 people
More than 250 people attended the ceremony.
His younger sister, Susan Tyler, of Knoxville, Tenn., attended and spoke about her brother. Tyler said he did what he did “because of love.”
Medal of Honor citation
Stout was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War. The citation on the Congressional Medal of Honor website reads:
“Sgt. Stout distinguished himself during an attack by a North Vietnamese Army Sapper company on his unit’s firing position at Khe Gio Bridge. Sgt. Stout was in a bunker with members of a searchlight crew when the position came under heavy enemy mortar fire and ground attack…