Maj Gen Palm, MCA CEO and Commander Bottelson (EWS Staff) after Plaque Unveiling
Plaque hanging in EWS "Warrior Room" by EWS Students Capt Kang Wook Lee, (ROK Marine) and his sponsor Capt Evans, US Army
Maj Gen Palm and Capt Lee
Students admiring plaque mounted on EWS "Warrior Room" bulkhead.
On 7 May 2007, Expeditionary Warfare School at MCCDC in Quantico, Virginia hosted a special ceremony honoring graduates of the school who lost their lives in action during the Korean War.
The culmination of extensive research to identify all graduates who made the supreme sacrifice in action during that war, the plaque displays the 2 Korean service medals awarded for participation in the campaign and also displays a tasteful name tag for each graduate lost there. The plaque is rendered in light colored material to symbolize the bleak winter landscape which was the backdrop for much of the action.
In a fitting gesture to the school's graduates, EWS, known previously as Amphibious Warfare School and during the Korean War, as The Junior Course, has posted or is planning to post similar plaques for other campaigns including World War II, Vietnam, the Global War on Terror and Other campaigns as well. The plaque was sponsored by the Marine Corps Association and was unveiled before an EWS assembly by Maj Gen Les Palm, President and CEO of the MCA, along with Commander Jay Bottelson USN from the staff of EWS. Following the unveiling, the class and staff assembled in the "Warrior Room" where the plaque was mounted on the wall by Captain Kang Wook Lee of the ROK Marines along with his EWS sponsor Captain Evans, US Army. The respectful tolling of a mounted brass, ship's bell in the "Warrior Room" commemorated the passing of the Marine graduates being honored and completed the ceremony.
EWS has initiated a tasteful and respectful way to honor those of it's graduates lost in action. MCA is pleased to support this tradition and salutes all their students who came to learn and left to serve.
