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480. 1885 CAMPAIGN HAT, regulation issue style, 6" crown complete with proper 5/8" hatband, 2-1/8" thin wide sweatband with large letters "USA" embossed in it, snowflake side vents, and three lines of stitching on the brim, size 7-1/8. There is a hole added by the soldier, ...

I know it has been mentioned before. What U.S. Cavalry Regiments that went overseas to Europe?

On the internet there are several good courses for WWII Cavalry Manuals from 1940- 1945.

That was very interesting.

Looking for information. Did the U.S.S. Indian Scouts have guidons? I know that there is flags with bundle of arrows with a bow across the bundle, with the name of tribe or nation on it. If anyone has an example of a guidon please post it.

I have searched in depth and seem not to find a adiquinant answer. Was there ever a bugle call for draw weapons?

Along with the 100th Anniversary of World War I there is the earlier anniversary of the Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917.

I want to wish everyone on the site a MERRY CHRISTMAS! May your horses be gentle and obedient and your whiskey be strong and your sabers be sharp.

The gentleman on my left was a Cavalryman stationed on the Border in Austria with the Constabulary.

My great uncle took several boat loads of livestock, mainly horses overseas to Europe after WWI.

I don't know weather they are still standing or not. But at Wildflicken on the military post there are building that were still standing as late as 1983 when I was last there. They were used as stables for the WWI horse Artillery and later for a SS Cavalry unit ( from what I was told from a former P...

I'm looking for some mounted dale stinks that individuals can do mounted on horse. We are starting a group for disabled veterans here and I'm looking for some exercise that can be done by the men/women. Kanye thoughts or sources would help.

Actual command found in the FM 2-5 1940 Cavalry Manual.

They better learn the movement called Flocking. They are too bunched up and some motor will tear them up.

And the old shall become new again! Now would be the time the military dust off the old Cavalry manuals and reread them.

Tomorrow marks the 138th anniversary of the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the hands of a combine Soiux and Cheyanne force. I am not trying to glorify Custer ( my personal opinion is not nice). Just remember the troops and the Natives that were locked into this sruggle at that time.

I'm surprised that Jackson Barracks in New Orleans didn't make the Ft. Wiki list. Jackson Barracks is still open.

Intereasting Photo's.

Always made me wonder what the Colonial troops that fought in Europe far from their countries thought about the reasoning of them fighting in that war.

I'm like Todd, I was also in two draw downs. One just after Vietnam and the other as the Cold War ended. It was not fun in one iota. Saw many friends that I made during the first one leave the Army that deserved to be there. Officers fell like leave in the fall season. I was at a McDonalds in Killee...