Marine Cpl. Kenneth M. Etter operates a 50-caliber machine gun on a Sea Knight helicopter from Squadron-262 of Marine Aircraft Group-16. On June 29, 1967, the helicopter endured enemy fire twice while conducting a rescue mission to extract reconnaissance teams from a location southwest of Phu Bai in Vietnam.

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