US forces on horseback fighting Taliban

UPI | 11/15/01 | PAMELA HESS

[mvscal]

Remember what soldiers from other divisions would say about the First Cav Div patch? The horse they never had The line they never crossed. . .

No one ever said that to me and I had one on both shoulders. ;)

[BansheeBill]

Here's the "The Last Charge" pic you were trying to post:

[Burr5]

If you read the article carefully, you'd realize the U.S. troops aren't charging tanks on horseback (THANK GOD!). The Northern Alliance are. Gotta love our guys though. And we do. That's why they have better equipment than the Northern Alliance.

[MindBender26]

If it's SF operators, if the indig are doing it, you do it!

When the village chief offered his daughters...... we did our duty.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Tango Mike, Bill. That's a Don Stivers print, "The Last Charge," 11th Cavalry, Ojos Azules, Chihuahua, Mexico during the Mexican Punitive Expedition. On 5 May 1916, six troops of that regiment attacked a Villista band at Ojos Azules, Mexico.

The last mounted cavalry unit in US service to see action was the 26th Cavalry (Phillipine Scouts), a regiment of Filipino troopers with American officers in the Philippines, stationed at Ft Stotsenburg, Luzon. They fought both mounted and dismounted against Jap invasion troops, once attacking Jap tanks December 1941 to February 1942. According to a Bataan survivor interviewed in the Washington Post (10 Apr 1977) starving U.S. and Philippine troops ate all the regiment's horses.

In Italy, 3 ID captured enough German artillery horses to field a Provisional Recon Troop (Mounted)

In Burma, 1944-45, a Texas National Guard Cavalry Regiment of the Mars Task Force stayed in the bush for months supplied by air drops and a large mule train.

Last mounted cavalry unit...129th Cavalry Squadron, activated 1 May 1944 for tactical instruction at Cavalry School; deactivated 6 Feb 1945.

Last mounted (horse or mule) US Army unit...4th FA Bn & 35th QM Pack Co, both deactivated at Ft Carson, CO, 15 Feb 1957.

There are Mounted Color Guards and Demonstration Units of platoon size or less at Forts Riley, Carson and Huachuca. The Old Guard 3rd Infantry keeps a few horses to pull caissons carrying caskets to military funerals at Arlington National Cemetary

Grey's Scouts were a mounted infantry battalion of the Rhodesian Army which was very effective against terrorists in the late 1970's.

Our Green Beanies are carrying on a glorious tradition while making some history of their own. I hope some American T. E. Lawrence writes about it.

[BlackjackPershing]

Are there any photos or video of the Afghan horseback ‘charges’ by our troops. That is a picture worth framing.

[sleddogs]

U.S. special forces troops ride horseback as they work with members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 12, 2001

http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=3741

[Ciexyz]

And do they play an occasional game of buzkashi on the side.