What is interesting from that battle is the number of people who went on
and up for various reasons and became well known.
Apart from Moore and Plumley, you had Joe Galloway, Rick Rescorla
Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall and from memory a couple of others who were decorated in that battle who went on and applied the lessons learned.
My first 2IC, A Capt who was an ex RSM, tough bastard and the guy
who knocked me into shape gave me a book on Vietnam and the first
chapter is on Ia Drang.