This is Jocco podcast number 106 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

Now, in podcast 105, we finished just as the one seven-cav flew out of the eye-dring

valley after keeping it together during a vicious three-day fight where they suffered

to massive casualties, 79 killed in action, 121 wounded, and on top of that, the battlefield

was littered with enemy dead, with the estimates of enemy dead to be between 500 and 1000.

And we stopped there where the one seven-cav left the battlefield.

So if you haven't listened to 105 yet, go back and listen to that before continuing with

this podcast 106.

Because even though the one seven left the battlefield, the battle wasn't over yet.

And one of the events that I didn't really talk about in the first eye-dring podcast on 105

was the fact that two other battalions had arrived on the ground to reinforce the one seven.

And it was the second battalion fifth cavalry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Tully

and the second battalion seventh cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel Robert McDade.

Now most of the battalions men from those two battalions had landed at Elzee Victor,

which was about two miles away from X-ray and they had patrolled to X-ray on foot arriving

for the most part without incident.

And then things seemed to settle down a lot on X-ray, one seven left.

And once one seven had left the battlefield, two seven and two five were still there.

So at that point that portion of the battle was over.

And two seven and two five could have likely been extracted via helicopter pretty securely,

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