(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Brigadier General Allen Mitchell Burdett, Jr. (ASN: 0-26048), United States Army, was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Assistant Division Commander, 101st Airborne Division and later, as Commanding General, 1st Aviation Brigade, in the Republic of Vietnam, from 1969 to 1970.