Airman may get MoH for secret Laos mission
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:50 pm
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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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