A US Air Force Report on the presentation of the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama posthumously to the family of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 21, 2010. Etchberger received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to place three surviving wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety.
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