(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Major General Hugh F. Hoffman, Jr., United States Army, was awarded a Second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Third Award of the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Commanding officer of a Brigade, and later of Support command, 23d Infantry Division, in the Republic of Vietnam, from 1969 to 1970.