As many as 175 enemy troops killed, 18 wounds from enemy fire, 38 hours of battle, 48 hours evading the North Vietnamese troops in the bush -- and one tiger. Those are the numbers behind Sergeant-Major Bennie Adkins' Medal of Honor, an award he [received] from Obama in a White House ceremony Monday.
Adkins, of Opelika, Alabama, [was] honored for his actions in Vietnam's A Shau Valley more than 48 years ago. Then a 32-year-old sergeant first class, Adkins was among a handful of Americans working with troops of the South Vietnamese Civil Irregular Defense Group at Camp A Shau when the camp was attacked by a large North Vietnamese and Viet Cong force on March 9th, 1966, according to an Army report.
Because Barack Obama just loves body counts. So much so that he managed to merely look bored out of his pecs as opposed to uncontrollably yawning and actively snoring on his feet as he performed another tiresome bourgeois American-presidential ritual. You can just see the thought balloon over his head: "I'd kill to go to the driving range right now."
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