By GI Korea on April 30th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: 1970 Camp Casey Front Gate Sign

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Leon LaPorte
8:42 am on April 30th, 2010 1
That is a kick ass, cool looking sign.
ChipperB
11:31 am on April 30th, 2010 2
The CG on the sign was the bn cdr from We Were Soldiers Once and Young.
guitard
12:58 pm on April 30th, 2010 3
Nice catch. This means he must have went from LTC to MG in just five years.
Cal
3:09 pm on April 30th, 2010 4
Sky sure was a lot bluer back then…
Leon LaPorte
6:50 pm on April 30th, 2010 5
This means he must have went from LTC to MG in just five years.

Yeah cool. Apparently, that is exactly what happened, I leave the rest to wiki:

Moore was transferred to Fort Benning and commanded a battalion in the 11th Air Assault Division, undergoing air assault and air mobility training and tests until July 1965, when the Division was redesignated the 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile).

Lieutenant Colonel Moore then took his battalion, the 1st battalion, 7th U.S. Cavalry (then in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division) to South Vietnam, and to the famous Battle of Ia Drang. Encircled by enemy soldiers with no clear landing zone (LZ) that would allow them to leave, Moore managed to persevere despite overwhelming odds that led to a sister battalion only two-and-a-half miles away being massacred. 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 with this astounding outcome. Importantly, despite the fact that Moore's spirited defense led to more than a 4-to-1 ratio between North Vietnamese casualties and U.S. casualties in their first major engagement of the war, Moore considers the battle a draw because the U.S. left the area and allowed the North Vietnamese to reassert control. Many consider this early battle a microcosm of the later war. 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 George Armstrong Custer, commander of the same unit (7th Cavalry) at the Battle of the Little Bighorn just under a century before.

After Vietnam, Moore served as Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans of the Eight Army in South Korea, and Commanding General of the 7th Infantry Division, before rotating back stateside. As Commanding General of the Army Training Center at Fort Ord, California in 1971-1973, he oversaw extensive experimentation in adapting basic and advanced individual training under Project VOLAR in preparation for the end of conscription and the institution of the Modern Volunteer Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Moore