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Comment on Fiddlers’ Green by SFC Erick Smith

SFC Erick Smith — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:53:49 +0000

HOOOAH, former Cav Scouts, One of my battle buddies Christopher Merchant was KIA in Ramadi,Iraq.A truecav scout,he gave me,his last beers on R&R.To Chris and his family.MAY GOD BLESS YOU.He was a true CAV trooper to the end.

Comment on Fiddlers’ Green by SPC Fuller, Jesse

SPC Fuller, Jesse — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:40:51 +0000

In memory of 3 fine Cavalry men. PFC Anthony Justesen, SPC Rafael Martinez, and SGT Matthew Gallagher. We miss you all, and we’ll see you again.

Comment on Join the Cav! by Lawrence S.(Dusty) Snow

Lawrence S.(Dusty) Snow — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:28 +0000

I’ve been with the 1/3 ACR, 1/2 ACR,5 ACR, 1/11 ACR Regt. Hq 11 ACR,3/11 ACR most of the Cav units was in good old Vietnam.

Comment on Garryowen by Ronald E Gonzalez

Ronald E Gonzalez — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:47:29 +0000

I was with 2/7 Cav 1969 to 1970 in Nam as a combat medic 91b20 {Lizard}. I was in the southern part of Nam Tay-Ninh all around that area.

Comment on Garryowen by Ronald E Gonzalez

Ronald E Gonzalez — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:46:24 +0000

I was with 2/7 Cav 1969 to 1970 in Nam as a combat medic 91b20 {Lizard}. I was in the southern part of Nam Tay-Ninh all around that area. First into Cambodie Gary Owen.

Comment on Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear by Tony G

Tony G — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:04:05 +0000

All Cavalry Troopers have earned the right to wear the Stetson for life. We’re proud to be Cav. The physical and high intelligence needed to even be admitted, much less selected, and then graduate US Cavalry school at Ft. Knox separates the men from the boys.

Their job? Go out and find the enemy, deep behind enemy lines in many cases.

I did Cav school at 30 (reclassified from Intel) and smoked the mostly 18-year-olds in my troop. But I had been in the army awhile by then and was in great shape. all 300 PT scores.

I cried the day I graduated and they pinned my sabers on my uniform. I was now able to don the Stetson which only Cavalry had been able to wear before. I had just completed an almost impossible tasks, almost three months of hell in sometimes -20-degree weather while in the field.

Now they’re going to give the Stetson to everybody!

Everybody else wants to wear the Stetson when they see Cav wearing them. It’s jealousy.

Fine! Let them do the time at Ft. Knox first. Don’t strip the Cav of its special place as the RECON and front-line intelligence for the army by diluting who can and cannot wear the Stetson..

Comment on Music by Wojciech Podczerwinski

Wojciech Podczerwinski — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:35:38 +0000

Oh! What a way to fight a war! Cavalry! The mighty Cavalry! Late at night while your sleepin’ Cavalry Scouts come a creepin’ all around! The mighty Cavalry! The mighty Cavalry! Scouts out!

Comment on Fiddlers’ Green by SSG (ret) T.C. Boyd , Cav Scout

SSG (ret) T.C. Boyd , Cav Scout — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:02:48 +0000

In remembrance of PLT SGT Carl L Palmer,1st Sqd 7th Cav, 1st Cav Div,KIA,la Drang valley South Viet Nam Nov 1965, My father-in-law I never met. There were also a lot of other troopers lost that day and the next who deserve mention. Even the survivors gave a lot during the engagement. I too am an old Cav Scout from 1972 to 1992 and still fly my crossed sabers.
Fiddlers Green is a calm resolve to think about while you are going through H___!
May fewer troopers make it there!

Comment on Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear by admin

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:59:09 +0000

Relax, trooper. It was an April Fool’s Day joke.

Comment on Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear by jason

jason — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:58:52 +0000

I completely disagree with allowing just anyone to wear my beloved stetson. I was in cav units from 2000 to 2006 and it is a time honored tradition of the cavalry. Many great cav troopers have died under that headgear and I feel it is dishonoring their memory. I take it as a slap in the face. Guess I now know what the Rangers felt. What’s next? Allowing every soldier to wear the spurs too? I just feel that it is taking away an identifying memorial to the Army’s greatest asset. Thank you!