Talk:United States Cavalry

Spam

Deleted spam link to Battlefield 2 game clan "Air cav". Very clearly spam. Txtimetraveler 08:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Tradition

Please help expand this section before some idiot who knows nothing about the Cav dubs it as insignificant and deletes it. Txtimetraveler 05:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Someone, indeed, added a frivolous message at the end of the article, which I deleted. Tom129.93.17.213 20:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

But you're right -- there's surely a lot more that could be said about tradition. Esp. if the 1st Cavalry Division maintains a unit of horse cavalry for ceremonial purposes, there's got to be a lot more to say about the pomp and circumstance aspect. Tom129.93.17.213 20:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The tradition section is specific only to Dragoons and says nothing about proper cavalry units. Certainly dragoons were a form of cavalry but on the whole this section is misleading.- Adam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.13.190.62 (talk) 16:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

United States Cavalry Vs. United States Army Cavalry

Hello, TabooTikiGod! I noticed you moved US Cavalry to US Army Cavalry, with an edit summary that the article was Army-specific. However, from what I've been able to discern, the name of the US Army Cavalry was always "US Cavalry," since the Army was the only service in the United States to have the Cavalry, and presumably it is the only service that ever will have had cavalry (since it is unlikely we will return to horse mounted warfare). So I'm afraid we're actually making it a bit more redundant in moving it from "USC" to "USAC," and also causing confusion because historically it was always called "USC," not "USAC." Please share your thoughts on the matter. -- AzureCitizen 18:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

The United States Cavalry has always been United States Army specific, the United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, United States Air Force and United States Coast Guard have never had a cavalry component of their service branch. Even though the nomenclature is "United States Cavalry", titling the article United States Army Cavalry is more specific. I do not have any references as to the proper nomenclature, however I can list articles from the United States Army websites. According to the United States Army Center of Military History, I can not find any references to United States Cavalry being the correct nomenclature of the U.S. Cavalry.

• Armor-Cavalry Part I: Regular Army and Army Reserve
• Lineage and Honors Information: Cavalry

-TabooTikiGod 19:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello again! Your response confused me just a little; I saw that you said "though the nomenclature is United States Cavalry..." and then you stated you couldn't find any references to the proper nomenclature. Just so that I'm clear, are we in agreement that although we haven't found any official references stating the official nomenclature (whether USC or USAC), we agree that the accepted historical nomenclature really is "US Cavalry?" --AzureCitizen 20:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I can agree that historically, that US Cavalry is more popularly used than US Army Cavalry however, I have not yet found any official sources referencing specifically United States Cavalry as the definitive United States Army branch. -TabooTikiGod 04:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Famous Cavalrymen

Forrest Tucker & Larry Storch ? I doubt these two comic actors actually served in the US Cavalry... perhaps this should be specified to mean they played cavalrymen on the comedy series, F-Troop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.6.180.7 (talk) 01:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Why not, if some idiot can add Ronald Reagan to the list, who only pretended at being in the military, by making war films at Roach Studios. It's kind of difficult to be in combat when he never left the security of his bed in Los Angeles.--

DOMatney —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.2.50 (talk) 00:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

FYI "Reagan enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve on April 29, 1937, as a private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on May 25, 1937, and on June 18 was assigned to the 323rd Cavalry.[29] His service number was 0 357 403. Reagan was ordered to active duty for the first time on April 18, 1942." If you want sources, read his wiki article. Jrcrin001 (talk) 03:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Horse-borne charge

Should there be a mention on this page regarding the US horse-borne charge in 2001? It is mentioned, and well cited, in the War in Afghanistan article, and the Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif article as well. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:21, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

27th & 28th Cavalry regiments

Hello,

I removed the following:

• 27th Cavalry Regiment
• 28th Cavalry Regiment, Established and Organized at Camp Lockett out of the 10th Cavalry Regiment

The lede for Buffalo Soldier recently stated the 27th & 28th Cavalry regiments were part of the original units organized right after the Civil War. This is clearly in error. There was no 27th or 28th Cavalry regiments in the history of the US Army. For a quick historical list, please click here.

Yes, I know the 27th & 28th Cavalry Regiments are listed in the two following cites, but both come from one source - an article written for the San Diego History Journal that is scant on sources for these two units. My guess is it is a typo.

• 27th Cavalry Regiment ref name=CpLockett {Citation

| title = Historic California Posts: Camp Lockett | url = http://www.militarymuseum.org/CpLockett.html | accessdate = 2008-01-17} ref

• 28th Cavalry Regiment ref name=CpLockett ref name="28cav" ref {Citation

| title = Defending the Border: The Cavalry at Camp Lockett | url = http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/93spring/border.htm | accessdate = 2008-01-17} ref

Can anyone show me another source - like a US Army source? Please advise. Jrcrin001 (talk) 03:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! Order of battle, U.S. Army, World War II by Shelby L. Stanton, 1984, Presidio Press. I added this reference and the 27th & 28th back under Cavalry units. Jrcrin001 (talk) 01:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Organisation - WW2 Mechanized Units

The WW2 Section seems to concentrate more on horsed cavalry than the more prevalent (at least post Pearl Harbor) mechanised variety! It also jumps mid paragraph from talking about horses to mechanized cavalry groups. I have split section into two subsections, horse and mechanized, and reordered paragraphs in, hopefully, a more logical manner.

Strangely, no reference was made of the most numerous cavalry unit (the Troop in each Infantry Division - well, at least in the ETO) nor of the squadrons in each armored division! The information on the unit structure was rather confused and had errors. I have corrected and expanded this from the referenced source - in particular, the halftracks used by the assault gun platoons seem to have been M3s and the M8 HMCs were variants of the M5 Stuart, not of the M8 Greyhound!Glevum (talk) 21:15, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

"Horse cavalry rifle troop 1944" Section

This section is in a totally different style than the rest of the article, without any context whatsoever. It's an outline of positions in a rifle troop? It has no source, so I'm tempted to just cut it. However, it is interesting, and I'd like to keep at least some of the info in the long term. What do people think? - - mathmitch7 ^{(talk/contribs)} 15:28, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Let it stand--perhaps someone will volunteer to write a lead-in paragraph for it (maybe I will do it myself, someday) and yes, a reference citation would be good (I have seen that Table of Organization somewhere...), so, I think it is valuable historical information for anyone interested in U.S. Cavalry.CobraDragoon (talk) 15:13, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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