tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post7163430601885244739..comments2023-10-05T05:46:35.447-07:00Comments on Airpower: Stir up Sunday Sermon - preached by The Reverend Charles RoydenHaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17560748219250900159noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-47142198787366977412020-11-21T12:34:54.551-08:002020-11-21T12:34:54.551-08:00FACT: from Joseph Lee Galloway's original stor...FACT: from Joseph Lee Galloway's original story of Landing Zone X-RAY Nov,14-16, 1965<br /><br />Twenty JAMESTOWN ( N.Y. ) POST- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening,November 17,1965<br /><br />WOUNDED SOLDIER LOSES HALF HIS PLATOON IN BITTER CHU PONG FRAY<br /><br /><br />FACT: Joe Lee Galloway was with Gen Knowles on the 14 Nov 1965. that means he wasn't at Catecka Nov 13,1965 with Brown. page's 133-134-135.from We Were Soldiers Once and Young, are FICTION.<br /><br />Joe Lee Galloway wasn't with Brown when the Sky Raider crashed.<br /><br />On Nov 14,1965, Joe Lee Galloway was with Brig. Gen. Richard Knowles,all day till around 9:00 p.m. deputy commander of the air cavalry division, OFFERED ME ( Joe Lee Galloway )A RIDE IN HIS HELICOPTER.<br /><br />Brig. Gen. Richard Knowles Command Post was at Pleiku.<br /><br />WE CIRCLED OVER THE BATTLE GROUND. Air strikes went in below us. An American A1E SkyRaider was hit on a low- level bombing run, and the pilot had no chance to bail out. The plane crashed and exploded in a cluster of trees.Russell L. Rosshttps://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-57831844270009118062020-11-21T12:28:19.017-08:002020-11-21T12:28:19.017-08:00part 3 of Joseph Lee Galloway's original stor...part 3 of Joseph Lee Galloway's original story of Landing Zone X-RAY Nov,14-16, 1965<br /> <br />Twenty JAMESTOWN ( N.Y. ) POST- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening,November 17,1965<br /> <br /> WOUNDED SOLDIER LOSES HALF HIS PLATOON IN BITTER CHU PONG FRAY<br /> <br />By JOSEPH GALLOWAY<br /><br /> VC BATTALIONS<br /> <br />Chu Pong Mountain rises 2,500 feet from the valley below. From the top, you could almost lob a mortar shell<br /> <br />into Cambodia. The mountain slope were heavily jungled. And they hid at least two battalions of North<br /> <br />Vietnamese Army regulars---- possibly the same troops who pinned down two companies of air cavalrymen not<br /> <br />far away about a week ago.<br /> <br />The cavalry were looking for them, spoiling for a fight. They found the Communist Monday and dropped by<br /> <br />helicopter into a small landing zone about the size of a football field at the base of the mountain on the valley<br /> <br />floor.<br /> <br />One platoon got about 300 yards up the mountain before the Communist opened up. From Behind, cut it off<br /> <br />and fired on the main cavalry force from three sides with small arms, heavy machine-guns, and mortars.<br /> <br /> <br />Time and again, the cavalrymen tried to move in and help the platoon' pull back, It was futile. The fire was to<br /> <br />heavy. The platoon spent the night on the mountainside. Their losses were heavy, but the damage to the<br /> <br />Communist was said to be heavier.<br /> <br />"We got 70 communist bodies stacked up in front of our positions," the platoon leader radioed back Monday.<br /> <br /> Men Dying<br /> <br />It was shortly before noon Sunday when the cavalrymen swept down in the area about 12 miles west of Pleiku.<br /> <br />Ever since the nine day battle around the Special Forces camp at Plei Me, the cavalrymen have been<br /> <br />sweeping the jungles and running into sporadic contact with hard-core Communist units.<br /> <br />Brig. Gen. Richard Knowles, deputy commander of the air cavalry division, OFFERED ME A RIDE IN HIS<br /> <br />HELICOPTER.<br /> <br />WE CIRCLED OVER THE BATTLE GROUND. Air strikes went in below us. An American A1E skyraider was hit<br /> <br />on a low- level bombing run, and the pilot had no chance to bail out. The plane crashed and exploded in a<br /> <br />cluster of trees.<br /> <br />Men are dying down there, but they are doing their job. "This is good," Knowles said." This is what we came<br /> <br />for.<br /> <br />We've got a U.S. battalion well -equipped down there."<br /> <br /> Many Dead<br />I got my chance to join the men on the ground about 8 P.M. I went with a helicopter loaded with supplies and<br /> <br />ammunition.<br /> <br />we were level with the middle of the mountain and in the darkness we could see the muzzle flashes of rifles<br /> <br />and machine-gun spitting bullets at us. I said a prayer.<br /> <br />Sgt.Maj. Basil Plumley of Columbus, Ga., met us at the landing zone, and led me back to Col. Moore's<br /> <br />command bunker.<br /> <br />" Watch your step," Plumley said, " There were dead people, all over here." They were dead Americans many<br /> <br />wrapped in ponchos.<br /> <br />At Day break Monday, Medical helicopters began landing and taking off again with the wounded.<br /> <br />A detail was assign the job of collecting weapons and ammunition from the wounded before they were evacuated.<br /> <br /> Russell L. Rosshttps://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-39636843427352499342020-11-21T12:25:03.518-08:002020-11-21T12:25:03.518-08:00part 2 of Joseph Lee Galloway's original story...part 2 of Joseph Lee Galloway's original story of Landing Zone X-RAY Nov,14-16, 1965<br /> <br />Twenty JAMESTOWN ( N.Y. ) POST- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening,November 17,1965<br /> <br /> WOUNDED SOLDIER LOSES HALF HIS PLATOON IN BITTER CHU PONG FRAY<br /> <br />By JOSEPH GALLOWAY<br /><br /> Veterans Cried<br />The men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry fought like heroes. They died the same way, Some took their wounds<br /> <br />without a whimper. Seasoned Veterans cried.<br /> <br />Col. Hal Moore of Bardstown, Ky., the commanding officer of the 7th Battalion, 1st cavalry, Came over to me,<br /> <br />tears streaming down his face, His men were catching from the slopes of this mountain range less than five<br /> <br />miles from the Cambodian border.<br /> <br />I'm kind of emotional about this, so excuse me," Moore said to me. "But I want you to tell the American people<br /> <br />that these men are fighters.<br /> <br />"Look at them."<br /> <br />Moore pointed to a Negro soldier lying in the shade of a tree. A Communist bullet had torn a huge hole in his<br /> <br />stomach. The soldier had his hands over the wound. You could see him bite his lip. He was in terrific pain, But<br /> <br />he made no whimper as he waited for a medical helicopter.<br /> <br />" Look at them," Moore said again. " They're great and the American people ought to know it."<br /> <br /> WAR "ACCIDENT"<br />It was shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday when one of those terrible accidents of war happened.<br /> <br />I was sitting in the command bunker, A mound of dirt screening us from the communist snipers, looking at the<br /> <br />wounded in the aid station just a few yards away.<br /> <br />Suddenly, I felt a searing heat on my face.<br /> <br />An American fighter-bomber had misjudged the Communist positions, and dropped a load of napalm. The<br /> <br />flaming jelly gasoline, impossible to shake or scrape off once it hits skin, splashed along the ground in a huge<br /> <br />dragon's tail of fire less then 25 yards away.<br /> <br />Screams penetrated the roar of the flames. two Americans stumbled out of the inferno. Their hair burned off in<br /> <br />an instant. their clothes were incinerated.<br /> <br />" Good God!" Moore cried. Another plane was making a run over the same area. The colonel grabbed a radio.<br /> <br />" You're dropping napalm on us!" he shouted. " Stop those damn planes."<br /> <br />At almost the last second, the second plane pulled up and away, its napalm tanks still hanging from the wings.<br /> <br />It was an hour before a medical helicopter could get into the area and tend to the two burned men. One GI was<br /> <br />a huge mass of blisters, the other not quite so bad. Somehow his legs had escaped the flames. But he had<br /> <br />breathed fire into his lungs and he wheezed for air.<br /> <br />A MEDIC ASK ME TO HELP GET THE MEN INTO THE HELICOPTER WHEN IT ARRIVED. THERE WERE<br /> <br />NO LITTERS. TENDERLY, WE PICKED THE SOLDIERS UP. I HELD A LEG OF THE MOST SERIOUSLY<br /> <br />BURNED MAN. I WASN'T TENDER ENOUGH. A BIG PATCH OF BURNED SKIN CAME OFF IN MY HAND.Russell L. Rosshttps://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-24855999752139310862020-11-21T12:22:42.988-08:002020-11-21T12:22:42.988-08:00Part 1 of
Joseph Lee Galloway's original stor...Part 1 of <br />Joseph Lee Galloway's original story of Landing Zone X-RAY Nov,14-16, 1965<br /> <br />Twenty JAMESTOWN ( N.Y. ) POST- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening,November 17,1965<br /> <br /> WOUNDED SOLDIER LOSES HALF HIS PLATOON IN BITTER CHU PONG FRAY<br /> <br />By JOSEPH GALLOWAY<br /> <br />Chu Pong Mountain, South Viet Nam ( UPI )---- The soldiers eyes were red from loss of sleep, and maybe a bit<br /> <br />from crying too, now that it was all over.<br /> <br />A three-day growth of beard stubbled his cheeks. But was hard to see because of the dirt. He was hurt, in terrible<br /> <br />pain, but you'd never know it. Slivers of shrapnel had ripped his chest and spared his leg.<br /> <br />He sat on the landing zone below the Chu Pong mountain where more Americans had died than ever before in<br /> <br />a battle against Communists in a war over Viet Nam. He had gone through hell -- three days of it--- and still a<br /> <br />bit dazed, more from lack of sleep then his wounds, though. When I walked up to him, he spoke, But not to me<br /> <br />in particular, nor to the other guys sitting around sipping the first hot cup of coffee they had since the fight<br /> <br />began.<br /> <br /> Loses a Friend<br />" I took care of 14 of 'em myself," He said. "They were tough little bastards. You had to shoot them to pieces<br /> <br />before they quit coming . . . just rip them apart."<br /> <br />I squatted on my heels waiting for him to say more, But he didn't. Somebody told me he had lost half of his<br /> <br />platoon, including a friend he had served with for more than eight years. "What is his name?" I ask.<br /> <br />" It's not important," the sergeant slouching nearby said. "He's just one of us and he did a damn good job."<br /> <br />Everyone did a damn good job. And nobody knew it better than Gen. Knowles, task force commander and<br /> <br />deputy commander of the 1st Air Cavalry.<br /> <br />"These men were just great," he told me. "They were absolutely tremendous. I've never seen a better job<br /> <br />anywhere, anytime,"<br /> <br /> Back From Battle<br />Monday another American soldier walked out of the jungle into the valley of death. Bullets whizzed over his<br /> <br />head and kicked up dirt at his feet.<br /> <br />" Get down you fool!" We shouted.<br /> <br />The GI kept walking, He carried no weapon, He walked straight and tall.<br /> <br />A mortar shell exploded nearby, He didn't waver, Shrapnel chopped off branches above my head. But the<br /> <br />American out there in the open came on until he was within a few feet of the battalion command bunker. He<br /> <br />looked funny, dazed.<br /> <br />Then we knew, he was shell shocked. He paused for a moment and looked around. He recognized the aid<br /> <br />station set up under the trees and walked toward it.<br /> <br />Just as the soldier reached the station he slumped to his knees, then pitched forward on his face, That is when<br /> <br />we saw his back for the first time.<br /> <br />It wasn't pretty, It had been blown open by a communist mortar.<br /> <br />Medics were unable to reach the soldier because of the almost solid wall of communist bullets and jagged steel<br /> <br />fragments coming from the jungle. So he walked out, The bullets and mortar did not bother him anymore, He<br /> <br />had his.Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-68583392557681958272020-11-21T11:48:51.404-08:002020-11-21T11:48:51.404-08:00From We Were Soldiers once And Young Joe Galloway ...From We Were Soldiers once And Young Joe Galloway and Harold G. Moore<br /><br />Page 205 bottom of page, top 206 <br /><br />Hal G. MOORE, BRUCE CRANDALL AND JON MILLS COMMITTED ART 128 ( Assault )page 369, of the Manual for COURTS-MARTIAL UNITED STATES `1951, UCMJ<br /><br />Hal G. Moore unslung his M-16, HE STILL HAD GRENADES ON HIS WEB GEAR and laid it on the bar, Mills and Bruce Crandall solemnly following suit with their .38's.<br /><br />( That means they Bruce Crandall and Mills had to take their pistols out of their holsters ) <br />Hal G. Moore then said:<br /><br />"You got exactly thirty seconds to get some drink on this bar or I'M GOING TO CLEAN HOUSE.<br /><br />Bruce Crandall pulling a gun on another officer who questioned his judgment.<br /><br />It wasn't Hollywood fiction: Bruce Crandall, a Washington native and resident, did indeed point a gun at a fellow soldier, but in this case, reality was racier than the screen take.<br /><br />The man yanked Bruce Crandall off a cot and made off-color remarks about his mother.<br /><br />"And so I did go after a weapon," said Bruce Crandall, now 69. "But I didn't point it at his head; I pointed it at his crotch.<br /><br />===Bruce Crandall, makes this statement about a MedEvac Pilot,a soldier who can't carry a weapon. in combat.<br /><br />"If he didn't have the balls to fight the enemy, I mentioned that he sure as hell<br /><br />shouldn't have the balls to come looking me up."<br /><br />But, Bruce Crandall he did look you up, He did have Ball's.<br /><br />======Medevac Pilots cannot carry weapons, they face the enemy weaponless.<br /> Bruce Crandall did carry a weapon and could fire on enemy and he didn't.<br />Quote Bruce Crandall "there was an enemy troop in front of my Huey blades he open fire wounding my crew chief."<br /><br />Bruce Crandall "we couldn't fire as we were on the Landing Zone."<br /><br />Text from the UCMJ article 128 Assault<br /><br />“(a) Any person subject to this chapter who attempts or offers with unlawful force or violence to do bodily harm to another person, whether or not the attempt or offer is consummated, is guilty of assault and shall be punished as a court-martial may<br />direct.<br /><br /><br />Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-36741386025862941002020-11-21T11:30:07.960-08:002020-11-21T11:30:07.960-08:00Hal G. Moore explanation of his weapon loss. enemy...Hal G. Moore explanation of his weapon loss. enemy and his units loss<br /><br />WEAPONS LOSS AT LZ X-Ray Nov 14-16, 1965 Ia Drang, Vietnam<br /><br />Page 198-199 We Were Soldiers Once and Young ( FICTION ) by Hal G. Moore and Joseph Lee Galloway<br /><br />Hal G. Moore " In my after action report I would urge the Army establish tighter control on both friendly and enemy weapons evacuated from the battle field.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore now blames the support troops, who kept his battalion alive at LZ X-Ray. for his weapon loss.<br /><br />"SHAME!" on Hal G. Moore for doing so.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore "We lost a lot of our own weapons, which were taken from our wounded men at the hospitals,<br /><br />and many of the enemy weapons captured and sent out for evaluation by our intelligence officers simply <br /><br />DISAPPEARED, siphoned off for souvenirs by REAR-AREA,[ Commandos], Medics and helicopter crewmen."<br /><br />BUT! Hal G. Moore's weapon loss was from enemy capturing his weapons.<br /><br />Subj: The Fog of War: The Vietnamese View of the Ia Drang Battle<br /><br />http://www.generalhieu.com/e66pleime-2.htm<br /><br />LZ X-Ray Nov 15,1965<br />Cuu claims he reported by radio to B3 Front Headquarters that his men had overrun the US position, captured more than 70 weapons.<br /><br />Page 7 We Were Soldiers Once and Young ( FICTION ) by Hal G. Moore and Joseph Lee Galloway<br /><br />Viera " The North Vietnamese came up,looked at me, He took my watch and my .45 pistol and walked on. I watched them STRIP off all our weapons: then they left.<br /><br />FROM Joseph Lee Galloway's original story of Landing Zone X-RAY Nov,14-16, 1965<br /><br /> Twenty JAMESTOWN ( N.Y. ) POST- JOURNAL- Wednesday Evening,November 17,1965<br /><br /> By Joseph Galloway<br /><br />A detail was assigned the job of collecting weapons and ammunition from the wounded before they were evacuated.<br /><br />Fact: The only time a weapon, binoculars, issued watches, is sent back with the trooper, is when no one can identify them, and he has no other identification. These items have a serial number and the trooper signed these out.<br /><br />page 4 Why did Hal G. Moore's troops take the dog tags off the dead?<br /><br />Viera " I knelt beside him, took off his dog tags and put them in my shirt pocket."<br /><br /><br />What was Hal G. Moore's troops doing with the signal operating instructions booklets? didn't they know how to AUTHENTICATE ? <br />EXAMPLE you called for artillery, they could ask you to prove who you are by AUTHENTICATING C charlie, D delta. <br />you are given a sheet of paper eith the code on it, you would look and find the words sheet, you would go across<br /><br />the top of the first column of the sheet and find charlie, you would then go down the left side first column go<br /><br />down till you find delta, where charlie and D delta meet on the paper you find the letter X xray. the code for this<br /><br />mission would be five letters from X X-Ray you stay on the delta column K O H R T U would be the correct<br /><br />letter.<br /><br />You were given 1 sheet of paper with codes( its called AUTHENTICATE ) on it for that mission, If BRIGADE felt it was needed, they sent out new codes<br /><br />Page 91 Sergeant Zallen collected signal operating instructions booklets, and burned them.Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-2254926819824114702020-11-21T11:16:10.611-08:002020-11-21T11:16:10.611-08:00Hal G. Moore is the godfather of ticket punching, ...Hal G. Moore is the godfather of ticket punching, complaining of other officer doing the same thing, in Vietnam ticket punching,.<br /><br />page 344<br />Even more devastating to morale and effectiveness of every American unit in combat was the six-month limit on Battalion and brigade command. <br />THIS WAS TICKET-PUNCHING: A career officer had to have troop-command for promotion.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore was THE GODFATHER OF TICKET-PUNCHING.<br /><br />In the Korean War, Hal G. Moore stayed in a combat position ( INFANTRY ) 16 day's to get promoted, to Major.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore's time inK company an Infantry unit, in combat 16 days.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore knew nothing about the positions ( JOB ) he was put in to get promoted.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore's TICKET-PUNCHING during peace time.<br /><br />Japan<br /><br />page 36 23 December 1945 Platoon Leader<br /><br />page 37 After three weeks as a Platoon Leader, Hal G. Moore claims to become a company commander for<br /><br />seven months ( Company commander doesn't show on his records )<br /><br />1 July 45 Hal G. Moore ( Chief ) Construction Officer.<br /><br />1 January 1947 Platoon Leader.<br /><br />7 July 1947 ASST S-3 187 GLR<br /><br />16 Feb 48 ASST Regt'l S-3, Med Det 187 GLR<br /><br />USA<br /><br />26 June 1948 Company Executive Officer ( XO )<br /><br />9 July 1948 Platoon Leader. escort dead troops home.<br /><br />19 Aug 1948 Platoon Leader.<br /><br />14 Nov 1948 Tec & Tac ( testing parachutes )<br /><br />Hal G. Moore's TICKET PUNCHING during combat.<br /><br />KOREA.<br /><br />After less than a week on the MLR.<br /><br />3 July 1952,Asst company commander, Heavy Mortars. <br />Hal G. Moore knew nothing about Mortars. <br /><br />8 July 1952, company commander ,Heavy Mortars.( 12 days )<br /><br />24 July 1952,ASST Regt'l S-3<br /><br />27 July 1952, Regt'l S-3<br /><br />6 Feb 1953, Company Commander, K company. 16 days in combat.<br /><br />23 Feb 1953, ASST G-3 ( XO,executive officer )( Division ).Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-67651020593945912452020-11-21T10:52:51.264-08:002020-11-21T10:52:51.264-08:00When did the 1/7 leave the Plei Me camp to fly to ...When did the 1/7 leave the Plei Me camp to fly to LZ X-Ray?<br /><br />One story said at 10:35 a.m. or 1035 hrs military time.<br /><br />Page 58: of We Were Soldiers Once and Young.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore the Air Assault Commander, as the 1/7th's assault group load the Huey's for the flight to LZ X-Ray from Plei Me camp.<br /><br />"what is the flying time from Plei Me to Landing Zone X-Ray, 14.3 miles?"<br /><br />Page 37: of We Were Soldiers Once and Young.<br /><br />Hal G. Moore and Bruce Crandall plan an Air Assault.<br /><br />Page 40: of We Were Soldiers Once and Young.<br /><br />With a time table,and failed to put down the flying time from Plei Me to Landing Zone X-Ray, with out this<br /><br />information, How could Hal G. Moore and Bruce Crandall plan the Assault?<br /><br />Page 58: of We Were Soldiers Once and Young.<br /><br />Jon Mills, 13 min and 15 sec, flight time to LZ X-Ray.<br /><br />Page 59: of We Were Soldiers Once and Young.<br /><br />Speed ( rate ) 110 knots, time 13 min and 15 sec, this time will take them 24.75 miles away, rounded up 25 miles.<br /><br />The correct time is 8 min.<br /><br />Formula for Time is<br /><br />Distance X 60 divide by Rate ( Speed ) 14.3 X 60 = 858 divide by<br /><br />110 = 7.8 min = 8 min time is rounded up to the nearest min.<br /><br /> How to figure out flight time<br /><br />Formula for Distance is rate ( Speed ) X time divided by 60, 110 X 8 = 880 divide by<br /><br />60 = 14.6 miles = 15 miles, miles is rounded up to the nearest 1/2 mile.<br /><br />Using 7.8 min for time for the distance 110 X 7.8 = 858, divide by 60 = 14.3 miles<br /><br />The distance from Plei Me to Landing Zone X-Ray.Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-17936381244003873772020-11-21T10:39:04.724-08:002020-11-21T10:39:04.724-08:00The Troops who did help Jimmy D. Nakayama and Jame...The Troops who did help Jimmy D. Nakayama and James Clark, Not Joe Lee Galloway!<br /><br />Arturo Villarreal · Sidney Lanier High School<br /> <br />Sp 4 James Clark was not given any morphine by the medics. He came running towards my foxhole with<br /> <br />his clothes on fire. I helped putting the fire out and I just gave him some saline solution. I took him to the<br /> <br />CP and ask the doctor to give him something for the terrible pain, but the doctor told that they didn’t have<br /> <br />anything to give him and he just told me to just keep giving him the saline solution.<br /> <br />++After some time pass, some helicopters landed and I put him aboard one of them.<br /> <br />Robert Saucedo should have been leaving the war. Instead, he was riding in the 16th helicopter in a<br /> <br />formation high above the jungle on its way to the Ia Drang Valley.<br /> <br />Jimmy Nakayma died in flight,3 degree burns no other injuries. ie Crushed ankle.<br /> <br />"On the second day, they dropped a couple of napalms in the (landing zone), and a couple of guys<br /> <br />bringing in choppers – the engineers – they got burned," he said with eyes distant.<br /> <br />++"They ran to our foxholes. We treated them for burns."<br /> <br />++"We treated him for burns. His face was on fire. His weapon was on fire," he said. "It was bad.<br /> Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9732377.post-45409924981920859272020-11-21T10:09:54.315-08:002020-11-21T10:09:54.315-08:00We Were Soldier Once and Young is Fiction as to th...We Were Soldier Once and Young is Fiction as to these troops and reporter Joe Lee Galloway, Hal G, Moore,Vincent Cantu,Jack P, Smith, Larry Gwin, George Forrest<br />Hal G. Moore, a devout Catholic family man,did not know it was a Sunday? Hal G. Moore left dead troop on LZ X-Ray Nov 14-16 1965, after telling his troops he would not leave no man dead or alive on the battle field. in April 1966, Hal G. Moore saying he was going to Landing Zone Albany, as they the 2/7 Battalion had missing troops, went back to LZ X-Ray to look for his missing troops he left on LZ X-Ray. Back at Xray in April 66.<br />QUOTE: Steve Hanson<br />"Yes, we did return to the Ia Drang.<br /><br />In fact, we air assaulted back into XRay.<br /><br />it was quiet.<br /><br />The mission was to search for and retrieve the remains of some Missing In Action. ( MIA )<br /><br />We found them.<br /><br />The battlefield had been cleaned up pretty good by both sides. We found a scattering of stuff and I noticed<br /><br />the remains of one NVA soldier near the "Ant Hill" that sheltered the command post during the battle.<br /><br />Steve Hanson. <br /> <br />https://lzxray.com/gallery_item/hal-moore-vietnam-10/ <br /><br />Joe Lee Galloway drives the KNIFE deeper into the Vietnam Veterans Back, while hugging them.<br /> <br />JOE LEE GALLOWAY'S TRUE FEELING ABOUT THE VIETNAM VETERAN.<br />" Damed if I'd want to go for a walk in the sun with them."<br />"Black GI's going thru long involved black power identification rituals."<br />"THE REST ARE JUST COMMITTING SUICIDE."<br /><br />+Joe Lee Galloway did not rescue Jimmy Nakayama! Joe Lee Galloway did help load a burned trooper into<br />the Huey.<br />+But only after Joe Lee Galloway, was ask to help, by a Medic.Russell L. Ross lzalbany65https://www.facebook.com/people/Russell-L-Ross/100009547068289noreply@blogger.com