Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than seven decades, the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," has provided ...

Mounted soldiers in the US Army Caisson Detachment support one of the military’s most sacred missions: transporting fallen ...

WASHINGTON ‒ For the soldiers and horses carrying former President Jimmy Carter's casket to the Capitol, Tuesday is as high-profile and no-fail a mission as they get. The five soldiers and eight ...

WASHINGTON — The horse-drawn caissons of the 3rd Infantry Regiment that have carried the caskets of deceased service members to gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery since 1948 are scheduled to ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. (Army News Service, Oct. 10, 2014) -- Before the sun peeks over the horizon, the Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), are already hard at work ...

SAN ANTONIO - Jonathan Ramirez never expected to end up on the back of a horse when he enlisted in the Army. But since March, that's where the 23-year-old paratrooper has been. He's also become part ...

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 ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- For the newest member of the Fort Sam Houston Caisson Section, 13 is his lucky number. Cole, a 9-year old Percheron Draft horse and the 13th four-legged member of the ...

Every day, the soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (“The Old Guard”) carry out the sacred duties of the U.S. Army Caisson Platoon. The platoon conducts eight full honors funerals a day, ...