Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army is extending the suspension of horses leading caissons during funerals at Arlington National Cemetery through June 2024 ...
In his time, Klinger would rise at 4:30 a.m., get showered and brushed, spruce up in brass and leather tack then trot out for a 14-hour day — pulling soldiers through gardens of stone. In 20 years of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army says it will continue the suspension of horse-drawn funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery after roughly a year ...
The Army announced changes Wednesday to the way it will care for the gray and black horses that carry service members' flag-draped caskets to their final resting places in Arlington National Cemetery ...
Retirement is a time when, after all those long years of hard work, a Soldier can finally put his or her feet up and relax. This also applies to the horses of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old ...
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY − At 6:30 a.m., the scrape of manure shovels and the shuffling of horse hooves echoed through the red-brick stable at Fort Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment in ...
Even as local northern Virginia communities and neighborhoods hosted traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating Oct. 31, a new tradition was beginning at 3d U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard) Caisson ...
A stronger blast, a little less luck, and the horse that Marine Sgt. Michael Blair is riding down an Arlington County trail could easily be pulling his coffin. "It's an honor riding these horses, ...
The Army is extending the suspension of horses leading caissons during funerals at Arlington National Cemetery through June 2024 due to their health. The initial pause, which began in May, for the ...