President Barack Obama next week would give the award to a United States Air Force sergeant who was killed in Laos in 1968

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama next week would give the award to a United States Air Force sergeant who was killed in Laos in 1968 with the Star of Honor posthumously for "courage beyond measure and extraordinary courage" from him.Boys Richard Etchberger will join with Obama Tuesday in the East Room of the White House that a lot of jewelry to commemorate his actions at the peak of U.S. combat operations in Southeast Asia 42 years ago was quoted as saying by the AFP.

Airman will receive the medal because it "intentionally open diriya for enemy fire in an attempt to place three of his injured survivors and rescue sling in place that allows them to be flown to a safe place, the White House said in a statement .."When he was finally rescued, he was injured due to heavy enemy ground fire," officials said.

Etchberger is a veteran air force 17-year-old at the time kamatiannya, when U.S. troops to combat troops in Laos komumis and trying to cut North Vietnamese supply lines.Medal of Honor is almost always given to members of troops who have died, because of the heroic actions above and beyond the call of duty. (AFP)