Airman may get MoH for secret Laos mission
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Nov 2, 2008 17:23:25 EST
Pentagon officials told Cory Etchberger that his father died in a helicopter accident in Southeast Asia on March 11, 1968.
But even at 9 years old, Cory said he felt something was missing in the story when his family was secretly whisked into the Pentagon to accept his father’s Air Force Cross.
Turned out Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger died saving three Americans fighting off waves of North Vietnamese commandos advancing on a top-secret U.S. radar station in the Laotian mountains, but those details were omitted.
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Airman may get MoH for secret Laos mission
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Airman may get MoH for secret Laos mission
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POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: Airman may get MoH for secret Laos mission
Well and truly heroic. Rates a CMOH in my book. I think it would go without saying that most, if not all, of us here are pulling for the Sarge.
But, I'll say it anyway!
But, I'll say it anyway!