When the United States takes the place of the French in the Vietnam War, Hal Moore is chosen to train lead a battalion of soldiers using helicopters for the first time in combat. He is told to take 400 men into a landing zone in La Drang Valley even though no one has any clue as to how many soldiers the North Vietnamese have around that area. When they arrive Moore captures a Vietnamese scout who tells them they have landed right next to a base camp located in a mountain near the landing zone containing over 4,000 men. Meanwhile, another platoon chases a scout into the woods that leads them right into an ambush killing many of the men standing them from the rest of the group. Moore informs the stranded platoon via radio that they will not be
