Episode 64 Medal of Honor recipient- Command Sergeant Major Bennie Adkins

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Kyle Lamb

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🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Medal of Honor recipient, CSM Bennie G. Adkins, Special Forces solider and American hero. This quiet man or men like him are the reason many of us decided to join the US Army’s Special Forces. CSM Adkins earned his MOH while fighting in the A Shau Valley in 1966. He is also the author of “A Tiger Among Us.” He was awarded his MOH in 2014. This man is the true “Quiet Professional”. He sets me straight during this podcast. What an honor. God Bless CSM Adkins, the men of Special Forces, and the United States of America!!

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0:00.0	You're going to do you. Oh, All right, folks, welcome to the team V-Tac podcast. I your host Kyle Lamb and today we're back up at
0:34.2	Sig Academy we have avoided the crowd a little bit here they've got a big event
0:39.4	going on and I found a guy out here in the parking lot he looks like he was looking for trouble and
0:46.4	his name is command sergeant major Benny Atkins how are you sir
0:51.1	well let's just fine I published my name. It's not even your
0:57.7	middle name, it's straight up your name. That I didn't, I didn't say that I won't on his honor that.
1:07.0	All right folks so an absolute honor today
1:10.8	we've got Benny Atkins, his son Keith and man I'll tell you I was up here a few months ago and I was talking to Jen and she said we have this army guy coming in, would you introduce him?
1:25.0	And she said your name, and I about fell out of my chair.
1:28.0	I said, heck, yeah, of course.
1:30.1	So, uh, commands ourarm Major Benny Atkins won the Medal of Honor for his actions in which
1:37.6	month was that of 66?
1:38.6	That's in 1966 in Vietnam, yes. Which month? March March.
1:44.4	March. March.
1:45.1	1966. And at the time, and if I butcher any of this, I apologize, but I'm kind of
1:51.5	nervous to be in front of you here just so you know.
1:54.0	So at the time you were you were presented with a DSC for your actions there
2:00.0	but later on in 2014 you're presented the Medal of Honor by President Obama.
2:06.0	That's correct.
2:07.0	A lot of that was declassified to the point that it. Oh okay okay. It could be known yes. You know the the other thing I want to
2:17.5	bring up before we get too deep into this the book that you wrote a tiger among us and this just came out in the last year correct?
2:28.0	Yes that is correct. So when I read a tiger among us I thought I'm just going to be, I thought, I thought, okay, so that has to do with the Tiger Stripe B to use, or you're
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