Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearest thing to an oldtime cavalry post is a Remount depot. There ex-cavalrymen who have a way with horses "gentle break" Army mounts in 120 days, without rodeo roughstuff. Veterinarians supervise horse conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready...
Cavalry in movement is still the finest sight in an Army, even though horses nowadays are good only for transporting men and guns. Modern cavalrymen are more like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre. General Richardson's demonstration was a fine sight. But in their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across...
Long before Samuel T. Peace, one of Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen, moved in and gave his name to Peaceburg, Ala., the tiny hamlet tucked away among the cotton fields of Calhoun County had been a going community. Last week no one by the name of Peace was left in Peaceburg. Sadder still, Peaceburg itself was deceased. Its inhabitants had to move away because their town was needed to enlarge the maneuvering ground and artillery range for training of troops stationed at Fort McClellan near...
...glory of Britain and her throne. The British backed a handful of braided and powdered French officers with phony French money printed by the solid Bank of England. These cadres were also supplied by the British with arms and uniforms for 17,000 infantrymen and 6,000 cavalrymen, who were supposed to be waiting for their chance. When the expedition arrived at Quiberon Bay, it found less than half the recruits it expected, its staff work was atrocious, and the expedition was a blood-saturated flop...
...history, 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve troops hiked, fought, slept in the open, while Army umpires with white bands around their campaign hats marked down their scores. Sweaty infantrymen slogged along country roads. Artillery rumbled through peaceful villages, tired gunners asleep in the trucks. Rednecked horse cavalrymen galloped down ravines, and forded creeks behind cased guidons. Cursing engineers built pontoon bridges across rivers while machine guns chattered and infantrymen in trucks shouted for more speed...