The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The 9th and 10th Cavalry - Feb. 21st, 2003

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[SpookBrat]

Hello my fine group of friends. I just wanted to let you know we got word today our (favorite...shhhh) nephew is being sent out soon within the next two weeks. He has finished his B1 training and will be leaving us. He can't tell us where he is going. I ask that you cover Todd and his young wife with your fervent prayers.

Todd is a genius, state champion runner, graduated Valedictorian, went to the Air Force Academy and married his high school sweetheart. He is a very good Christian man. He loves the Lord, his country and his family and is trying to live a pure, righteous life. He is one in a 1,000,000. We couldn't be more proud of him. If you try to thank him for serving our country, he’ll shrug you off and tell you he is only doing what he has wanted to do since he was a little boy. Fly planes and serve his country.

[Jen]

Uhhhhhh, pardon me? Did you intend to reply to someone else?

[Jen]

Hi guys and gals. I'm just popping in for a split second to say hello!!!! Wish I could spend more time now, but I'll try to get back later.

Spookie, I will keep your nephew in my prayers. God bless him for serving our country.

[uncitizen]

Pardon me AntiJen. Yes i most certainly did intend to reply to someone else. On a different thread no less. Please excuse and forgive the offense. I've been doing this for years and this has never happened before.

[SpookBrat]

Hey Jen. I forgot to mention he was in the Air Force. Thanks Jen. I know I haven't been able to catch you lately, but I have been keeping you and your family in my thoughts as well. Blessings!

[Jen]

I've been doing this for years and this has never happened before.

For some reason, it happens to me frequently! At least 3-4 times a week I get a reply that is intended for someone else on a different thread. I think it's because of the Foxhole ping list that I post each day.

No problem! I'm used to it. And, no offense taken. You can hang out with us anyway, even if you did drop in unintentionally! hehehehe

[SAMWolf]

Prayers for your nephew Todd,
May the Good Lord watch over him.

[SAMWolf]

Have a good evening Jen.

[Jen]

Hey Jen. I forgot to mention he was in the Air Force.

The B-1 bomber part was a big clue. ;-)

I'm doing OK and everyone in my family is too. I've been thinking about you all this week and hoping and praying that you and your family are doing well. Blessings to you too sweet Spookie.

[cavtrooper21]

You are the MAN!

[SpookBrat]

I know this isn't Foxhole subject matter, but I went to an MK party the other night and had such a good time. My face is so shinny and healthy now. :) LOL

[uncitizen]

For the first time replying to the wrong person, i just wish it hadn't been such a hostile one. I hardly ever reply with hostility. This was one of less than a handful of times. What're the chances of this??? Almost as astronomical as Scott Peterson being innocent.....

[SAMWolf]

Just a "Horse Soldiers" fan.

John Wayne just looked so good in a Cavalry uniform.

[xsysmgr]

Don't ask my why it's called a Squadron, that's the title under the picture, as far as I know Cavalry has always been called a Troop.

Infantry Company = Cavalry Troop
Infantry Battalion = Cavalry Squadron

This does appear to be a Squadron. There are three guidons visible in the picture which indicates three troops, the right number for a Squadron. In the first rank is the Squadron Commanding Officer (CO) (on the gray horse). To his right is the Troop CO and to his right is the troop guidon. To the guidon's right is the first platoon, with the Platoon Leader centered in front of them and the platoon sergeant in file behind the rightmost member of the platoon. After an interval, there is the second platoon (only 7 men!), with the Platoon Leader centered in front, and the platoon sergeant behind, this time, the leftmost file.

Another interval, and the second troop, with the Troop CO to the left of the guidon, the first platoon to the right with the Platoon Leader centered in front and the Platoon Sergeant (also on a gray horse) behind the leftmost file.

Farther back is the third (and much larger) troop with the Troop CO on the left of the guidon and the rest of the troop behind.

It's a full Squadron, but a badly under strength one.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks a lot for the info.

I never knew that the Cavalry used the term Squadron.
I've only heard it used in reference to the Air Force and Navy. I love learning something new.

[Jen]

Good for you! I bet it felt great to get all this Foxhole mud off your face. ;-)

[Jen]

I think you may be right!

[cavtrooper21]

Great post. These guys deserved far more credit the they have received. Another example of the simple fact that courage and bravery come in all shapes, colors and sizes, and should be admired and emulated no matter where you find it.

[MeekOneGOP]

I am proud of your nephew, Spookie !! Give him my best regards, okay ?

LET'S ROLL !! (Kick bu**, guys !)

[PhilDragoo]

The Colored Cadet at West Point.
Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper,
U. S. A., First Graduate of Color
from the U. S. Military Academy:
Electronic Edition.
Henry Ossian Flipper, 1856-1940

The page is immense, being the scan of the entire book with its meticulous chronicle and copious correspondence.

Now, after this man's no-doubt prejudicial court martial, some sixty-three years after his death, we have:

The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who prosecuted the first Gulf War, now the Secretary of State, in the leadership prosecuting the second.

Which is the American Way, to grind out all which is petty to leave only the stuff of the best substance.

'The feeling of ostracism is so strong that a white boy who dared to recognize a colored cadet would be himself ostracized by the other white cubs, even of radical extraction.'

Not that different from the factory summers of my college years when the good old boys from Ken-tucky and Tennessee made great hay of my talking to the only other collitch boy, a black fellow from I.U.

The phraseology of the opening chapter regarding the ownership of his parents is startling.

Now we are poised on lifting such a yoke from millions under Saddam Hussein, while ensuring our continued freedom from such a beast's attacks.

Now come the Hollywoodpeckers and the anacephalic activists, jabbering that we must appease the abominable.

The left makes itself a laughingstock of lemmings while we stand on the eve of history's advance:

Godspeed Swift Victory and Safe Return to the Finest Fighting Force on Earth

SADDAM-FREE in '03