Martin pattison biography

When Byron Martin Pattison was born on 8 February 1881, in Douglas, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Simeon Martin Pattison Thayer, was 40 and his mother, Grace Emma Frink, was 24. He married Grace Bamfield on 2 June 1902, in Golden, Jefferson, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lowell, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 August 1962, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Monrovia, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Robert Martin Patterson (born April 16, 1948) is a retired United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.

Military career

Patterson grew up in a family of tobacco farmers in Fayetteville, North Carolina.^[1] Patterson joined the United States Army from Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1966, and by May 6, 1968, was serving as a specialist four in Troop B, 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. During a firefight on that day, near La Chu, Thừa Thiên Province, South Vietnam, during the May Offensive, Patterson single-handedly destroyed a series of enemy bunkers. For his actions during the battle, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted to sergeant.^[2]

In the mid-1970s, Patterson, by then a staff sergeant, served as a Basic Trainingdrill sergeant at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Patterson reached the army's highest enlisted rank, Command Sergeant Major, and served in the Gulf War before retiring in 1991.

Later life

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