Porttait of Navy Petty Officer Edward T. Earhart, of Morehead, Ky. who is among the missing in the aftermath of the plane striking the Pentagon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Claudette Thomas is the aunt ...
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 ...
The mission to carry a fallen service member to his or her final resting place with the Fort Sam Houston Caisson Section came to fruition in the wake of terrorism. Army Lt. Col. Karen Wagner, a ...
The Army stopped using iconic funeral processions called caissons because horses were getting sick and dying. They're back after a $28 million investment.
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 Fort Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment in ...