(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Colonel (Infantry) Lewis Burton Tixier, United States Army, was awarded a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States with Headquarters, I Field Force, Vietnam, and Commanding Officer of a Separate Brigade, Americal Division, in the Republic of Vietnam, from 1967 to 1968.