We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore

Schwarzkopf later became a General in the U.S. While serving as an instructor at West Point, Moore taught then-cadet Norman Schwarzkopf, who called Moore one of his 'heroes,' and cites Moore as the reason he chose the infantry branch upon graduation. In 1954, Moore returned to West Point, this time as a major, and served for three years as an instructor in infantry tactics. He earned his second Bronze Star for Valor for evacuating wounded in front of the Main Line of Resistance near Puhung-ni, Korea when he was the Assistant G3. While serviing as the S-3, Moore was awarded a Bronze Star for Valor for his participation in a counterattack to recover a strategic outpost near Sanggasan, Korea. He for the next 13 months, served as Regimental S-3 and then Divisional G-3 Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans. While in Korea, he commanded both a rifle company for 16 days and a heavy mortar company for 12 days in combat. In 1952 Moore was assigned to the 17th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division as a captain in the Korean War. Over the course of his career, he became a master parachutist with over 300 jumps. While with the 82nd Airborne Division, he volunteered to join the Airborne Test Section, a special unit testing experimental parachutes, and he made some 150 jumps with the section over the next two years. He served with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment in Japan from 1945 until 1948. Moore was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry branch in early 1945. He graduated from West Point in early 1945 and, later in life, attended graduate studies at George Washington University and Harvard University, and achieved a master's degree in international relations from the former. After that, he was appointed to West Point by a Georgia congressman in 1942. Moore therefore moved to Washington, D.C., where he graduated high school and attended for two years.

He had wanted to attend the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, however he found it difficult to be appointed to West Point due to the rural area of his hometown. Moore was born on February 13, 1922, in Bardstown, Kentucky. He is best known as the Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang, in 1965 during the Vietnam War Moore was the 'honorary colonel' of the Regiment.

Moore is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, which is the second highest military decoration of the United States Army, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. (Febru– February 10, 2017) was a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army and author. Military Academy in May 2010Įxecutive Vice-President of the Crested Butte Ski Area, Colorado

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore