Arlington, Virginia — Soldiers of the U.S. Army's Old Guard are taking on intensive drills as they prepare to resume next month their sacred and solemn duty of using horse-drawn caissons, or carriages ...
The dark shapes of seven horses came into view across Section 62 at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning, returning to the hallowed grounds the sounds of clopping, huffing and the turn of ...
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 ...
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 Ft. Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment in blue ...