Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than seven decades, the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," has provided ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY − At 6:30 a.m., the scrape of manure shovels and the shuffling of horse hooves echoed through the ...

The dark shapes of seven horses came into view across Section 62 at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning, returning to the hallowed grounds the sounds of clopping, huffing and the turn of ...

WASHINGTON − The Army announced Tuesday that it will resume using horse-drawn caissons for a limited number of funerals at Arlington National Cemetery this summer, three years after it suspended the ...

The U.S. Army’s Caisson Detachment returned to Arlington National Cemetery this week for the first time in two years. In Section 62, the ceremonial horse unit that transports veterans and service ...

WASHINGTON — The Army announced earlier this month that it has reinstated the use of caissons during military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery in a limited capacity following a two year absence ...

Arlington National Cemetery will soon bring back caisson horses for some military funerals after implementing a nearly two-year pause to improve the herd's health, the Army announced Tuesday. Horses ...

For more than seven decades, the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," has provided horse-drawn caisson funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia ...

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 ...