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Additional Polish horse patrol information. https://www.wojsko-polskie.pl/2bot/articles/aktualnosci-w/patrole-konne-na-strazy-bezpiecznej-granicy/ With google translation Horse patrols have been securing the eastern border of the state for two months now. Thanks to the use of horses, Lublin Territor...

There is this on the West Coast as of a few years ago. https://www.fs.usda.gov/PackStockCOE A number of strings pictured here including from the Inyo National Forest. There is always an entry at the Bishop Mule Days. As well as from Yosemite National Park. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfsregion5/a...

Pat since you brought nutria up 11 years later... https://www.rollcall.com/2019/09/25/rep-harder-wants-to-fight-the-swamp-rats-outside-d-c/ What is a most entertaining read is the "Debate" on the House floor which can be found here https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2020/02/26/h...

On California's Central Coast is Camp Roberts the only Army Installation not named for a General, but named for Corporal Harold W. Roberts. It is a 40,000 acre National Guard Training Base. He had enlisted and served as a Cavalryman in the Philippines before shipping to France and becoming a Tanker ...

An excellent website of the Whitbread Shires describes there activity from WW2.http://whitbreadshires.moonfruit.com/# The author I met at the stables in London in 1987 and struck me as a great horseman. https://www.facebook.com/colin.lavender.108/videos/1427004734129160/UzpfSTE1MTAxMzc1ODI3MDM3NjozN...

Here is the European way of setting rubber tires on carriage wheels. The tire (metal part) has a lip curling on each edge that the tire is pressed into.
https://www.facebook.com/hippomobiel/vi ... DExNTQ5MA/
Cheers,
Steve Haupt

From the Imperial War Museum. The way this pair is moving they have started a pretty good load. The London Midland and Scotland Railway was an amalgamation of railroads and was one of the largest corporations in England before the Nationalization in the 1970s. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item...

Dave Engel does nice work check out of his "po-dunk shop" at https://engelscoachshop.com/ His rubber tire setting machine has it origins back to the 1890s. My friend had one too from that era that I had tires reset with. What was aggravating was to have only one wire break and hope you cou...

Ah for the days when milkmen wore ties.

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Cheers,
Steve Hupt

For those that are in the San Francisco Bay area an excellent little National Park Museum is the Rosie The Riveter Home Front. https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm I also worked with a fellow who during WWII got a deferment because he had the only dairy providing milk in an Iowa County. The greatest b...

Here is a good ground view of The King's Troop taken last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywTZ5IB4O3o
Roy would you have ever thought there would be Women in the Troop?
Cheers,
Steve Haupt

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Greetings, While reviewing FIRES BULLETIN the publication for the U.S. Artillery in the July-September 1917 issue in the Archive Found this good article. Also from Youtube it appears the suggestion was taken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O0SDdvSGPk The mounting of the recruit reminds me of me cl...

That's what we get when we try to make smores out of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Who said the Navy needs ships?

With the new movie coming out I thought I'd direct you to the book by Doug Stanton. An excellent review of the book is from the CIA at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-53-no.-3/the-horse-soldiers.html From Marines.mil is this ...

And we were worried about the Russians?

Cheers,
Steve Haupt