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...line of Army scout cars rolled out of Fort Bliss, down a rutty road, and out on the Texas plain. Beyond the stubby noses of the cars stretched wave on wave of "bondocks" (sand hummocks, topped by sage and greasewood) and deep arroyos. Behind the scout cars, a mile across the twisted land, stood file after file of horsemen, half-hidden in the brush. The U. S. Cavalry was about to have some...
...gentlemen, you see what I meant," said horse-proud Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., commander of the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss. What he meant was that horses could "flow"' over terrain where no truck, scout car or tank could go. He spent an evening last month expounding his doctrine of flowing horses and horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within...
Whatever the size of the flow cavalry might be allowed in the new Army, life at Fort Bliss (and at many another post) had changed. The lazy days were over. The Army was at work...
...awards, financed by the Bliss Fund, will be presented to the writers of the four best essays. An additional prize will be given to the author of the best one of this group...
...discussion will feature an address by Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin-American History. Professor Haring will discuss social problems caused by the rapid growth of industry in Latin America...