He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Patton frequently used helicopters as a mobile command post in Vietnam and was shot down three times. However, following his promotion to Colonel in April 1968, he was given command of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. During this final tour, he was initially assigned as Chief of Operations and Plans at Headquarters, U.S. During that tour, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses for his valor on the battlefield. tour lasted from January 1968 to January 1969. Lieutenant Colonel Patton's second Vietnam deployment was in 1967 and lasted only three months. He then commanded 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood, TX.

His first tour from April 1962 to April 1963, was at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MAC-V), where he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He served a total of three tours of duty in Vietnam. in 1954, Captain Patton was initially assigned to West Point but was quickly picked up as part of an exchange program and sent to teach at the U.S. Patton received his first Silver Star and the Purple Heart in Korea.

Patton served in Korea starting in February 1953, commanding A Company, 140th Tank Battalion, 40th Infantry Division. The troops under his command were used to load supplies onto Air Force transport aircraft bound for Berlin. Second Lieutenant Patton's first assignment was to Regensburg, West Germany, where he participated in the 1948 Berlin Airlift. Upon his graduation from the Academy in 1946, Patton was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. Military Academy when his father died after a traffic accident in Germany in December 1945. George Smith Patton IV was born on 24 December 1923, the son of famed World War II U.S.

Army general orders in 1980