A military band plays a reverent march, leading six horses as they pull a flag-draped casket through tree-lined lanes of Arlington National Cemetery. A team of soldiers transfers the casket from the ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dark shapes of seven horses came into view across Section 62 at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning, returning to ...
The Army will begin limited use of horse-drawn caissons for funerals at Arlington National Cemetery the week of June 2. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army will soon begin limited use of horse-drawn caissons ...
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 ...
Soldiers assigned to Caisson Detachment, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), conduct the inaugural ride of the caisson's limited reintegration into funeral services in Arlington National ...