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Experience Gives Perspective

McCaffrey commanded B Co 2-7th Cav in Vietnam during 1968-69. In this series of video interviews, veterans of the company share their perspective of the battlefield leadership of then Captain Barry McCaffrey.

Captain McCaffrey was on his third combat tour at age 25. He would be wounded for the third time while commanding this Air Assault Company of the 1st Cavalry Division.

1st Sergeant Emerson Trainer was an enormously experienced field combat leader. He had served in the same B Co 2-7th Cav in the Korean War. He also would be wounded for the third team leading these terrific soldiers. The soldiers loved and trusted him. At age 35 he was the “Old Man” of the company.

The soldiers were mostly teenagers or younger than 22. Almost all were draftees….. even though draftees comprised less than 25% of the total troop population in Vietnam. These troops were incredibly courageous, aggressive, quick to protect their buddies, smart and physically fit. Combat was relentless and violent. We lived like animals and dug like moles.

The company operated alone on the battlefield but was supported by incredibly effective US artillery, attack helicopters, and US Air Force fighter-bombers.

These soldiers have stayed together in association for 50 years. Every two years we gather at the Vietnam Memorial and remember those who were killed…. and all those who protected each other.

Download a PDF copy Military History Stories, a biographical summary and history of the life of General Barry McCaffrey.

NBC NEWS SEATTLE HONORS GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY FOR HIS LIFETIME OF SERVICE 30 July 2025

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ANDOVER INTERVIEW –
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HIGH SOBRIETY HOSTS BARRY MCCAFFREY TO DISCUSS…

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Trump UN speech was brutal. Crude. Send them to Hell? Who talks like that? He believes he is without the legal and political constraints of our democracy. A dangerous man. History will excoriate those who allowed this to happen.

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I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

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Brave soldier. RIP.

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His carbine was blown right out of his hands, and he was already wounded. Robert McGovern kept attacking the bunker anyway, alone, firing his pistol and catching enemy grenades to throw them back, killing seven of the enemy before they finally killed him.

McGovern was an Army

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U.S. President George W. Bush hosting President-elect Barack Obama and former U.S. presidents for a historic lunch in the West Wing dining room at the White House on January 7, 2009...

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump’s corruption: “When you say the word depraved, it is so much worse than that, so much darker than that. There’s a level of shamelessness to him. They are literally overtly now stealing money. They’re literally selling pardons, insider trading with