Word: cavalrymen
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...Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a reformed cavalryman who pioneered tank warfare in the Army when tanks were noisy nuisances, but fell victim to ill health just after the Armored Force was organized under his command last year. Most of General Chaffee's key subordinates are also ex-cavalrymen who have suspected and bitterly opposed an attempt by the jealous Infantry to get control of the Armored Force. As a horse artilleryman who has recently commanded an Infantry division, General Devers is a logical choice to quash such rivalries, weld tank, infantry and artillery units which make...
...were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free French cause, leading with him some of his wiry Circassian cavalrymen...
...troop ate lunch-thick sandwiches packed in paper bags by the cook for the midday halt. A few bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good...
Nearest thing to an oldtime cavalry post is a Remount depot. There ex-cavalrymen who have a way with horses "gentle break" Army mounts in 120 days, without rodeo roughstuff. Veterinarians supervise horse conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready...
Cavalry in movement is still the finest sight in an Army, even though horses nowadays are good only for transporting men and guns. Modern cavalrymen are more like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre. General Richardson's demonstration was a fine sight. But in their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across...