The 23-Minute Battle That Made McMaster Famous Was A Brutal Desert Smackdown [VIDEO]
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Rachel Stoltzfoos
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11:27 AM 02/22/2017
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The battle that made incoming national security adviser Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster famous was a brutal smackdown in the Iraqi desert during the Persian Gulf War known as the Battle of 73 Easting, when an Army troop took out an entire Iraqi brigade in less than 25 minutes.
McMaster’s troop of 9 M1A1 tanks and 12 Bradley tanks was leading a squadron along the southern Iraqi border in search of hidden Iraqi Republican Guard units, when his tank crested a rise and the entire enemy position suddenly came into view.
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