Washington, D.C. — Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association, headquartered in Copperas Cove, is in Washington, D.C., this week for the association’s annual Veterans ...
THOMASVILLE — In addition to Veterans Day, this week marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. For those who survived, a battle still wages.
FORT BENNING, Ga. (May 2, 2012) -- A gathering of heroes and legends took place Saturday in Columbus. The leaders and Soldiers who fought in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, the U.S. military's first ...
FORT BENNING, Ga., (July 15, 2015) --Bud Alley, a Vietnam veteran of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, recently wrote a book titled The Ghosts of the Green Grass, which tells the story of the ...
It's been called the "battle that changed the war in Vietnam," the Ia Drang Valley siege made famous in literature and a Mel Gibson film We Were Soldiers. It happened when 450 U.S. soldiers were ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The men of the 7th Cavalry Regiment who fought alongside LT. General Hal Moore are together for their 57th reunion of the Battle of IA Drang Valley during the Vietnam War.
Panel of 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary soldiers will discuss the Battle of Ia Drang Valley Many of the men depicted in the popular 2002 Mel Gibson Vietnam War film We Were Soldiers, will share their ...
War made them brothers. A movie made them famous. But the Battle of Ia Drang Valley made them legends. The brave men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary reunited aboard the USS Yorktown Friday, April 17 ...
November brings Veterans Day and also this year the 50th anniversary of the major battle in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam involving the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division. Casualty rates on both sides ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. (WTVM) - There was a special reunion in November for a band of brothers on the front lines of the Vietnam War, alongside a commander who’s about to have Fort Benning named after him, ...
On the sun-dappled floor of South Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley that November afternoon, Army Capt. George G. Forrest had a fleeting thought: How nice it would be to be someplace else. Forrest and other ...