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Training. you were there to really help them with that. right. and that was not our intention when we went. but we were reconnaissance marines. we get on the ground and figure out what needs to be done. talking to the local military commanders, we asked what they needed, and they said they didn t have anyone that knew any infantry tactics. all their men had been sent to the front lines. what they had now was this new territorial defense militia that had nothing. and between mark and i, we trained troops in over a dozen countries. for over 20 years. and we figured we could help. we asked if we could help and they said yes, and they let us help. but yeah, you re right. they didn t have a lot of them didn t even have a weapon at the time. if they did have a weapon, it had one magazine and jeans or a track suit and a light jacket and sneakers or maybe boots. and we were training out in ....
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Shares Retired Army Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Gregory Moore, co-author of the book “We Were Soldiers Once…and Young,” Harold Gregory “Hal” Moore, Jr. (born February 13, 1922) was a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Army. Moore is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, which is the second highest military decoration of the United States Army. He was the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965, in Vietnam. Today he is the “Honorary Colonel” of the Regiment. Born in Bardstown, Kentucky, Moore’s chances of obtaining an appointment to the United States Military Academy were reduced due to the demographics of the area. Moore therefore moved to Washington, D.C., where he completed his high school education, and attended George Washington University for two years before receiving his appointment from a Georgia congressman in ....
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Red, White, and Black: The US Army in the West 1866-1891 Indian scouts on Geronimo’s trail in Mexico during the mid-1880s included Yavapai Rowdy (front row, far left), who later received the Medal of Honor, and the White Mountain Apache leader Alchesay (back row far left). Sam Bowman, an African American Spanish-speaking interpreter stands in the same row with Alchesay at the opposite end of the line. – Courtesy of John Langellier
After four years of fighting, the Civil War ended. The victorious Union Army soon disbanded, leaving behind a small force of regulars to such diverse duties as guarding the Eastern Seaboard, serving as an occupation force in the South during Reconstruction, and returning to its numerous functions in the West. The work in the West often proved frustrating, especially because after Lee’s surrender the authorized strength of the U.S. Army shrank to 54,302 officers and men, while the salary of a private was decreased three dollars pe ....