[Dengar01]

US Cavalry Bump!

Diddo that. Hasn't been since the early 1900s that the US troops are riding them horses huh?

So much for tanks, hummers, jets ect. We're going back to original US Cavalry.

[sargunner]

Mare Force??

[ArrogantBustard]

Somewhere, in Valhalla, J.E.B. Stuart, "Black Jack" Pershing, and a whole bunch of others are smiling.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Strictly speaking this is not Cavalry. Cavalry troopers are trained to fight both mounted and dismounted. These soldiers are riding their mounts to the battlefield and then dismounting. That makes them Mounted Infrantry not Cavalry.

[Aristophanes]

Think again. My father (now deceased) trained at Ft. Bliss where they had the last mounted calvary in the U.S. Army ca. 1942.

On another thread around here yesterday, someone posted info on a U.S. Army unit that actually fought on horseback in the Philippines during WWII.

[El Gato]

Diddo that. Hasn't been since the early 1900s that the US troops are riding them horses huh?

It was a mite later than that. Even during WW-II the Army maintained a replacement mount station at I belive Ft. Robinson, in Nebraska. Mostly used as beasts of burden by that time, but there were still some mounted calvary at the beginning of WW-II, IIRC. I know horses were used to carry supplies, guns, and even small cannon, in Italy, in the Pacific, probably in Burma, New Guinea, etc.

Besides didn't you ever watch MASH? Col.(Dr.) Potter was an ex Calvery type, from the pre WW-II era.