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With the final disposition of tactical cavalry horses in March 1947, the Army ended all training and educational programs dealing with mounted troops. With the closure of the cavalry school, a new educational function continued on 1 November 1946 at Fort Riley with the Ground General School, training newly commissioned officers in basic ...
Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount Service began systematically breeding horses for the United States Cavalry in 1918. It remained in operation until 1948, when all animal-breeding programs returned to Department ...
The Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility made an agreement with the BLM in 1988 which began their well-known but short-lived Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program. At first, only older horses were sent to the program so they would be easier to adopt, but it eventually turned into a much larger program, inspiring similar programs to ...
According to a program audit reviewed by The Wichita Eagle, 600 people had completed the program and received five years of student loan assistance, 560 had either withdrawn or been disqualified ...
The Army named four of the animals who broke loose on Wednesday as Vida, Trojan, Quaker and Tennyson.
Chief (1932–1968) was a horse owned by the United States Army.He has been credited as the Army's last living operational cavalry mount.Mustered into service in 1940 in Nebraska, Chief was posted to Fort Riley and served with the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments before being sent to the U.S. Army Cavalry School.
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A history teacher asked The Star how Kansas City’s predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods came to be the cultural centers that they are. Here’s what we learned from local historians and longtime ...