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If anyone knows how to contact him, please click on the Cav Patch and tell us. Photo
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In
the early history of warfare, chariots were the "fighter planes"
of the day
and every red-blooded young noble wanted to be in one. ~ Dyer ~ |
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Cavalry,
mounted horsemen, replaced chariots on the battlefield. Moving
rapidly,
cavalry caused considerable disruption by throwing spears and arrows. ~ Dyer ~ |
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1970 Pistol (front) French-made .25 cal SKS Rifle (back) Chinese-made B/1/9 Scouts found a cache of approx. 7,000 new SKS rifles, so many that the B Troop CO authorized everyone in the troop to get one as a souvenir. Honeycutt: "I gave my pistol to the Blues pointman before I left country." Photo 200-240 
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The
earliest cavalry's main purposes were scouting, skirmishing, and,
above all,
riding down the refugees of the defeated side once they had turned to flee. ~ Dyer ~ |
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1970 If you can identify this trooper, please click on the Cav Patch and tell us. THE ONE AND ONLY---" WHITE MIKE " PSG JOE ARRUDA SCT PSG Photo 200-241
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"The
average subject in medieval society could not take part in cavalry
warfare because only wealthy feudal landowners could afford the horses and armor required. ~ Dyer ~ |
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1970 Photo 200-242
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Weapons
grew more sophisticated, but the basic logic of the battlefield remained:
masses of armed men in highly disciplined formations. ~ Dyer ~ |
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1970 Photo 200-243
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Armies
were centrally important to the creation of civilized societies.
~ Dyer ~
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1970 Photo 200-244
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Soldiers
are not the enemies of peace. They are there to do our bidding,
and to pay the price of our ambitions and our mistakes. ~ Dyer ~ |
Strip away all the rhetoric, and the core remains:
we expect our young men to sacrifice their lives for us if war comes,
and they are willing to be asked.
The essential idea of sacrifice does not become meaningless,
it's just that we can no longer place that burden soley on our young men.
Instead of asking them to die in war so the nation can get its way,
We all have to make the lesser sacrifices necessary to avoid war.
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