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For three days and nights they fought head winds, trying to make their easting.

Foote says he’s still in pain and he’s still easting through a feeding tube.

In 1991 he won a famous tank engagement against Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, the Battle of 73 Easting.

He first came to public attention in the Battle of 73 Easting in the first Gulf war, when the nine tanks he was commanding in 1991 came up against an estimated 80 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and other vehicles and – mainly because of technical superiority – destroyed them all, with no loss of life on the American side.

McMaster commanded troops in both American wars in Iraq — in 1991, when he fought in a storied tank battle known as the Battle of 73 Easting, and again in 2005-2006 in one of the most violent periods of the insurgency that developed after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.