Editing Hal Moore (section)

====Battle of la Drang====
[[File:Hal Moore, Ia Drang, Nov 1965.jpg|320px|thumb|LTC Hal Moore during the Battle of Ia Drang, November 1965.]]
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Beginning on November 14, 1965, Lt. Col. Moore led the 1st Battalion, [[7th Cavalry Regiment|7th Cavalry]] of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in the week-long [[Battle of Ia Drang]]. Encircled by enemy soldiers with no clear [[landing zone]] that would allow them to leave, Moore managed to persevere despite being significantly outnumbered by North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces that engaged the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, only two-and-a-half miles away the next day. Moore's dictum that "there is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success" and the courage of his entire command are credited by Moore with this outcome.<ref name="Moore2008p162"/> 

Moore was wounded and earned a Purple Heart. Because the wound wasn't serious, he did not believe he was entitled to the medal, and unsuccessfully tried to return it. He never wore the ribbon or the medal on his uniform.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Modinger |first1=John H. |title=Hal Moore A Life in Pictures |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/MR-Book-Reviews/June-2022/Book-Review-002/ |access-date=7 November 2023 |work=[[Army University#Army University Press|Army University Press]] |date=June 10, 2022}}</ref> The blond haired Moore was known as "Yellow Hair" to his troops at the battle at Ia Drang, also a tongue-in-cheek homage referencing the legendary General [[George Armstrong Custer]], who commanded as a lieutenant colonel the same 7th Cavalry Regiment at the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]] just under a century before.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=220933|title=Moore, Harold ("Yellow Hair"), LTG|year=2011|work=TogetherWeServed|publisher=TogetherWeServed, Inc.|access-date=February 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017115938/http://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=220933|archive-date=October 17, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Moore was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Cross]] for extraordinary heroism at Ia Drang.<ref name="WPAoG" /> After the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, Moore was promoted to colonel and took over the command of the Garry Owen (3rd) Brigade.<ref name=Guardia141>Guardia, p. 141</ref>