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  1. Lieutenant Colonel Moore leads 7thCalvary into Ia Drang Valley
    date 1965map Asia, Outside UStags "Harold Moore", "Ia Drang Valley"

    Lieutenant Colonel Harold G. Moore, Jr., took command of one of the battalions of the 11th Air Assault Division in June, 1964. He trained and tested the officers and soldiers of his battalion for over a year. Upon completion of testing, the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) was redesignated the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and Lieutenant Colonel Moore's battalion was given the 1st Battalion, 7th...

  2. Forty years later, James Johnson still copes with PTSD
    date 1967 to 1968map Asia, Outside UStags War, Health/Death

    James Johnson served as chaplain in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division during 1967. Johnson never carried a weapon, but he was still exposed to the horrors that the soldiers and other men in his division experienced. “I was determined to go on combat missions,” stated Johnson, “I couldn’t stay in base camp knowing the guys were going to be faced with terror.”...