HAL MOORE

'Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr.' (born February 13 1922) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General. 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 14–16, 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 1942 (despite having never before been to Georgia).
He graduated from West Point in 1945 and attended graduate studies at George Washington and Harvard universities obtaining a Masters degree in international relations.
Moore was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1945 and retired in 1977. Moore was the first of his class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. After his retirement, Moore served as the Executive Vice President of the Crested Butte Ski Area, Colorado.
Hal Moore and his deceased wife, Julia Compton Moore,^[1] have five children and numerous grandchildren.

Contents

Selected awards

Writings by Hal Moore

See also

Trivia

External links

Notes

Selected awards

★ Combat Infantryman Badge (2)

★ Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

★ Master Paratrooper

★ 2003 USO Patriot Award

Writings by Hal Moore

★ ''We Were Soldiers Once...And Young'' (with co-author Joseph L. Galloway), which was adapted into the film ''We Were Soldiers'', which was filmed at Fort Hunter Liggett and Fort Benning; Moore was played by Mel Gibson.

See also

★ Lieutenant General

★ Basil L. Plumley

★ Battle of Ia Drang

★ Julia Compton Moore

★ 1st Cavalry Division

Trivia

Moore was known as "Yellow Hair" to his troops at the battle at Ia Drang, for his blonde hair, and as a tongue-in-cheek homage referencing Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, commander of the same unit (7th Cavalry) at the Battle of the Little Bighorn just under a century before.

External links

★ Tribute to Hal Moore

★ Hal Moore at LZ X-Ray Painting

★ Interview on ''We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young'' at the Pritzker Military Library

Notes

1. Vietnam story: The word was the Ia Drang would be a walk. The word was wrong Joseph L. Galloway