re: Senior Pentagon soldier to ISIS: Surrender or get beaten with entrenchment tool

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It's been done before...

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In June of 1951, 1st Sergeant Wilson would find his company with orders to take the largest hill overlooking the Hwachon Reservoir, which would be later dubbed, “Hell Hill.”

As a 1st Sergeant, it wasn’t necessary for him to be the one leading the charge, but it almost seemed enjoyable to Wilson. As I Company moved up the hill, they became subject to massive volumes of enemy fire. With his unit pinned down, he charged a machine gun bunker and killed all four enemies in that position.

He then took his men on a bayonet charge through the entrenched Chinese soldiers killing over 25 of them. When the Chinese led a counter-attack to retake the position, it became apparent that his men were at risk of being overrun. He then led a one-man charge on the counter-attacking force killing 7, wounding 2, and sending the rest fleeing in disarray.

And while I Company came within 15 yards of their objective, the combined North Korean and Chinese forces proved too many and too heavily entrenched to take. During the assault up the massive hill, Wilson was wounded and carried down the hill on a stretcher.

When the medics put him down to rest, he got up in obvious pain and returned up the hill to provide cover for his men as they withdrew. The fighting had turned hand-to-hand at this point, and after killing three more of the enemy, his rifle was wrestled from him.

This is when he turned to his entrenching tool and killed four more Chinese soldiers. He was wounded yet again on the way down the hill but continued to provide covering fire for his men.

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