101st Airborne Division ceremony in Carentan, France
U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, shakes the hands of 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) soldiers at a memorial ceremony in Carentan, France, June 7, 2019. During the ceremony, twenty-one “Screaming Eagle” Soldiers conducted a reenlistment ceremony. The ceremony was arranged in the same manner as a June 20, 1944 ceremony in which then Div. Commander Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor presented awards to Screaming Eagle Soldiers in the Carentan Town Square, after the city’s liberation.