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Here's the last edition of the Army's Internet newscast. http://vimeo.com/109854883 At the 7:18 mark you can see the Campeonato de Patrullas Montadas (Mounted Patroll Championship) recently held at the School of Cavalry. It starts at the 7:18 minute mark. The Patrol Championship is both a competitio...

Good picture. I posted a thread on this Argentinan Unit a couple of years ago: https://forum.militaryhorse.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4940 I'm curious about what happened to this Regiment as it is an interesting unit mixing horses, motorcicles and Steyr Kurassier SK105 light tanks, plus a mounted b...

The Castle Peaks Training Center in Reno Nevada had a Tactical Horsemanship Program around 2012. It was advertised as very similar to this Marine course and also aimed at operations in Afganistan/Irak. The training center's webpage is down, but it was a private company that trained military, police ...

Here are 2 links from the Chilean Army's Internet news program. Both feature news about the Escuadrón de Exploración Montado Independiente de Chaitén (Chaitén Independent Mounted Exploration Squadron). This is an operational and not ceremonial unit. Both links are from 2012 newscasts. They are in Sp...

What was the cause of the 1978 crisis and why did the anticipated war not occur? In reality it was the result of a long antaginism that dates to the 19th century. Most former Spanish colonies have had territorial disputes due to problems with frontier demarcations. The south of Chile and Argentina ...

I supose Argentinian polititians can say the regiment is unneded because relations with Chile have improved. However, they have sistematically destroyed their Armed Forces and their local industry and technological base (and their economy and education, etc). It's just as probable that it's sheer ne...

Very nice video.
Thanks for sharing.

I just stumbled with an article from "La Mañana de Neuquén", a local argentinan newspaper about rumors to deactivate and close de General Lavalle Mountain Cavalry Regiment. It talks about rumors that say the personel would be transfered to other units and that the fate of the mounted band ...

Cat Sh*t had a spin off: Cat Sh*t 80s. After Beckwith loses his job after Eagle Claw, the team is separated. The leader goes on exchange with the British SAS in time for the Embassy siege and the Falklands. Another one fights in Afganistan during the Soviet invasion and the third one puts up a front...

The second mission is a reprisal. The target a French plantation owner that helps the Viet Cong and exterminated one of Beckwith’s recon teams. The third chapter is about war orphans and collateral damage. In the last mission, one of the protagonists goes back to the Bronx in a R&R trip only to ...

(Don't know why this topic was repeated. I´ll try to fix it) His other work I read is the 2 volume of the “Cat Sh*t One” trilogy, AKA Apocalypse Meow, an impressive Vietnam saga. Here the writing and historical accuracy are top notch. And the art is even better. The thing is that the art features th...

And now for something completely different… This week I had two days off from work, so I took my kids to the public library. My kids love checking out books, and it’s cool to take them because all the best stuff is in the children’s and young adults sections anyway. Looking at the comic books I foun...

I saw the movie 2 days ago and liked it very much. It has managed to obtain some bad reviews here that say Spielberg can't do a clasic epic, but I guess that just shows Chilean film critics are even worse spoilsports than US/UK ones. I was also favourably impressed with the movie's general realism a...

I missed it. I'll have to look for it next time I see it on video with my kids. What I enjoyed about the film is that Cap is an earnestly heroic hero. Most movies now have reluctant heroes. That's OK for Spiderman, because that's the original story but it's getting to be a troupe. In the Lord of the...

Interesting that the Swiss carried anti tank rockets on horseback. Most units discussed in the forum were for COIN duties (Grey Scouts) or early Homeland Defense (Coast Guard mounted units, Circle C Cowboys). If they needed horses to cross the terrain, why did they expect to find enemy tanks? In wh...

Interesting that the Swiss carried anti tank rockets on horseback. Most units discussed in the forum were for COIN duties (Grey Scouts) or early Homeland Defense (Coast Guard mounted units, Circle C Cowboys). If they needed horses to cross the terrain, why did they expect to find enemy tanks? In wha...

I bought and read the spanish translation hardcover. Expensive but well worth it. The translation seems decent. There is some akwardness with the military acronims but none of the usual stupid mistakes (I have come to a point I can actually tell what the original said in English by analysing the inc...

We have seen in the forum photos of buckets in use by the Angola Dragoons of Portugal with their HK G3 rifles. It's interesting to see the STg57. I'm familiar with it's export version in 7,62 Nato caliber, the Sig 510, still in some use in Chile (and possibly Bolivia). I understand the Stg57 magazi...

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii175/SMHSupport/Sattlung_Tragtierausrstung_Tenu_A_Tenue_B_143.jpg Interesting bucket. I wonder if this is the only bucket purposely designed for a post WWII automatic rifle? We have seen in the forum photos of buckets in use by the Angola Dragoons of Portugal wit...

I saw True Grit with my wife and we loved it. She's not a Western fan but easily recogniced this movie strives for verosimilitude. I think it's a representative of a trend that started with Eastwood's "Unforgiven". Clasical Westerns are "larger than life" idealized epics (with so...