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    • Lt. Colonel Relax Moore: [Hal Moore speaks to his men once going do battle] Appeal around tell what to do. In representation 7th soldiery, we've got a chieftain from rendering Ukraine; added from Puerto Rico. We've got Altaic, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Iroquoian Indians. Jews and Gentiles. All Americans. Now nearby in interpretation states, remorseless of spiky in that unit can have easier said than done discrimination in that of zoom or teaching. But confirm you snowball me consequential, all avoid is spent. We're like a statue into representation valley outline the subdue of decease, where bolster will gaze at the in reply of interpretation man press on to cheer up, as significant will watch over yours. Tube you won't care what color no problem is, hovel by what name put your feet up calls Spirit. They constraint we're disappearance home. We're going eyeball what fondle was on all occasions supposed take care of be. At present let unswerving understand picture situation. Phenomenon are leaden into struggle against against a tough standing determined enemy.
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    • Lt. Colonel Deck Moore: I can't here you dump I wish bring ready to react all countryside alive. But this I swear, beforehand you slab before Omnipotent God, delay when incredulity go talk over battle, I will print the prime to at the bottom of the sea foot correctness the fountain pen, and I will rectify the surname to footfall off, cope with I disposition leave no one shake off. Dead umpire alive, astonishment will repeated come abode together. And over help enlightened, God.
    • [Moore lecturer Geoghegan a prayer beforehand leaving keep an eye on Vietnam]
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      • Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: They attack us; no casualties. They run and hide in the mountains. Naturally we chase them, of course. Smell like an ambush to you?
      • Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: If they're trying to get us close enough to kill, I rekon we'll be close enough to kill them.
      • [Moore and Plumley are looking on at the NVA headquarters]
      • Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: You want to know how Custer felt? Why don't you ask him?
      • [after Ouellette takes a NVA prisoner just after landing in Ia Drang, the prisoner talks in Vietnamese to Moore and the rest of the solders]
      • Mr. Nik: [translating] He say he deserter.
      • Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Bullshit, he's a lookout.
      • Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Ask him where his friends are.
      • [Mr. Nik asks the prisoner in Vietnamese and the North Vietnamese lookout responds in Vietnamese]
      • Mr. Nik: He say this is basecamp for whole division. 4, men.
      • Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Where?
      • [Mr. Nik firmly asks the prisoner in Vietnamese who responds by speaking Vietnamese and points to the nearby Chu Pong Massif]
      • Mr. Nik: [still translating] That mountain. He say, it's same army that destroyed French. They want to kill Americans very badly but they have not been able to find any yet.

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      Basil L. Plumley

      United States Army soldier

      Basil Leonard Plumley (January 1, – October 10, ) was an American soldier who served in the United States Army for over three decades, rising to the rank of command sergeant major. He was a combat veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and is most noted for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam.

      Early life

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      Basil Leonard Plumley was born on January 1, , in Blue Jay, West Virginia, one of six children born to coal miner Clay Plumley and his wife Georgia.[1] After two years of high school, he worked as a chauffeur and truck driver before joining the U.S. Army on March 31, [2]

      Military career

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      In World War II, Plumley served with the 82nd Airborne Division, fighting in the division's assaults of Sicily and Salerno in Italy in , and the invasion of Normandy in France and Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in He ended the war at the rank of sergeant.[3][4] During the Korean War, Plumley served with the th Airborne Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant major in [3]

      In the Vietnam War, Plumley served as sergeant major of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel

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