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LTG (Ret) John LeMoyne

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His first assignment was in a Davy Crockett platoon, but that field nuclear weapon system was short lived and John LeMoyne began training to be an advisor in Vietnam. When he got there, he walked out of in-processing and went looking for the unit he wanted. (5:05)

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The enemy was mainly NVA regulars where American advisor John LeMoyne was working with a South Vietnamese Airborne battalion. They would pour out of Cambodia every couple of weeks and attack. Some of the men with the Airborne had been fighting the Communists for twenty years. (4:36)

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His first day in the jungle was memorable. American advisor John LeMoyne saw his South Vietnamese paratroopers stage a daring frontal assault, called in his first air strikes and Medevacs and, after it was over, he wondered if every day was going to be like this. (4:49)

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It was about the closest he came to a bad end in Vietnam. John LeMoyne had to low crawl up to a dug in machine gun position for the better part of an afternoon. Fortunately, there was a flaw in their building design. (2:31)

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Six months after John LeMoyne had battled entire regiments of the NVA in the Tay Ninh area, there were only isolated small groups operating. The war had changed. As a new company commander, he had a lot of questions and he was fortunate to have superiors who were patient. (4:02)

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It was lessons learned in Vietnam that John LeMoyne tried to pass on as an instructor in Ranger school. The candidates would soon have the awesome burden of being responsible for the lives of others. (2:35)

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During Operation Just Cause, John LeMoyne was assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) as a liaison officer to other agencies. In this capacity, he was able to observe some high level command operations that were very impressive. It was only a short while after this brief conflict that Saddam Hussein began to make noise in the Middle East. (3:44)

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John LeMoyne had come in to Saudi Arabia leading an advance team. Starting from scratch in the desert, in the summer, huge operating bases were established. The locals were amazed at the way the Americans adapted to the environment. It was during this conflict that many innovations in troop care and comfort were devised. (7:52)

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John LeMoyne never had a bad assignment. That's the way he looked at it, anyway, and it had a lot to do with the excellent leaders he encountered throughout his career. They helped him crack the code on how to win the trust of soldiers. (4:54)

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Advisor training gave John LeMoyne a good grounding in Vietnamese language and culture. Reading books like Street Without Joy and The Ugly American gave him an idea of what to expect as an outsider in a nation at war. Once he was there, he found out that he had been taught the language with a North Vietnamese accent. (4:08)