Command Sgt. Maj. Basil L. Plumley
Thank you Sgt. Maj. for your service and your inspiration.
Posted on 10/11/2012 2:41:27 AM PDT by Einherjar
Basil Plumley, veteran of 3 wars, featured in 'We Were Soldiers' movie, dies in Georgia
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He was played by Sam Elliot in the movie with Mel Gibson.
From Daily Mail article: Joe Galloway, author of the book along with Hal Moore, said several of Elliott’s gruff one-liners in the movie were things Plumley actually said, such as the scene in which a soldier tells the sergeant major good morning and is told: ‘Who made you the (expletive) weather man?’
Sgt MacKenzie - We Were Soldiers Soundtrack with Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Ad04mukI&feature=related
[Face-down on the ground under a storm of enemy fire, photographer Joe Galloway gets a combat boot in the stomach.]
Sgt.Maj. Plumley: Can’t take no pictures lyin’ down there, Sonny!
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[Plumley hands Galloway an M-16 and several magazines.]
Joe Galloway: Uh, sir? I-I’m a noncombatant, sir.
Plumley: Ain’t no such thing today, boy.
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[Vietnamese troops are advancing on the termite mound where casualties have been collected.]
Plumley: (chambering a round in his .45) Gentlemen — prepare to defend yourselves!
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May you rest in peace Command Sergeant Major, may angels speed you to your home.
I just watched that movie last night. So sad; Rest in Peace, soldier...
Command Sergeant Major Plumley...Salerno, Normandy, Korea, Vietnam..”We Were Soldiers”...CSM Plumley was a “Soldiers Soldier”. A true American Hero.
My old Battalion CSM once said that if he was ever a character in a movie, he wanted Sam Elliot to play him.
RIP.
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