Rank: Specialist 5
Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 12B – Combat Engineer
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 4-Apr-1949
Hometown: Cordova, Alabama
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 29-Dec-1967
Start of tour: 24-May-1968
Incident date: 25-Oct-1969
Date of casualty: 25-Oct-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of Death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Accident. Burns. Burns/Smoke Inhalation.
Adrian Alan Akins was standing on a 10 ton trailer. Another individual was loading a 10 ton bridge section onto the back of Akins’ vehicle using a 20 ton crane. Akins was holding the bridge section to guide it onto the trailer when the cable from the crane struck an overhead electrical wire causing Akins to be electrocuted.
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 079 119
Place of interment: Boldo Memory Gardens, Boldo, Alabama, USA
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