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...Colorado, ranchers were getting in hay for the long winter snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
...since the Civil War had U. S. cavalry engaged in maneuvers on the scale of those conducted last week on 120 square miles of terrain in and about Marfa, Tex. Some 280 officers, 4,000 men, 3,200 horses and 1,500 mules were deployed over gulches, hillocks and sagebrush plains-the Second Cavalry Brigade (Fort Bliss) playing "Brown" army to the "White" army of the First Cavalry Brigade (Fort Clark) and First Cavalry Regiment (Marfa, Tex.). Tanks, cannon, airplanes, Red Cross ambulances and every appurtenance of real war, right down to hot weather, secrecy and red tape, accompanied...
Following the maneuvers, horses, mules and men assembled in Marfa for athletics, a review and a horse show. Troopers were paid off and sent back to their stations while officers continued to argue about which "army" had "won." Among other stratagems weighed for merit was that of dyeing white horses brown to camouflage them from aerial observation. Other modern cavalry camouflage: dull metal mountings on harness; dun netting to dull the flash of shiny saddle seats...