They would have followed Rescorla in an assault upon the gates of Hell. The voice pounding through on the scratchy tape was a voice out of the pages of history for me - the voice of Rick Rescorla. ![]() ‘Garry Owen’ is the motto of the 7th Cavalry. I was a company commander in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry - George Armstrong Custer’s old outfit - and an audiotape made at An Khe in the spring of 1966 had found its way into my hands. I HEARD HIS VOICE long before I ever met him: ‘Gaaaa-rry Owen, Garry Owen, Garry Owen, / In the Valley of Montana all alone / There’ll be better days to be for the 7th Cavalry / When we charge again for dear old Garry Owen….’ ![]() Major Bruce Crandall’s UH-1 Huey dispatches Infantry while under fire during combat operations at Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, November 1965.
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