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 Ft. Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment in blue ...

FORT MYER, Va -- Famous author Winston Churchill once wrote "No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle". The same can be said about the Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has announced a long-term plan to address the health and well-being of horses supporting enhanced funeral honors at Arlington National Cemetery and to ensure the herd can ...

WASHINGTON — The yearlong suspension of horse-drawn funerals at Arlington National Cemetery is expected to extend for several more months as the Army faces obstacles in improving horse care, service ...

WASHINGTON — The more than year-long suspension of horse-drawn caisson funerals at Arlington National Cemetery continues, and their return remains uncertain. There were up to eight horse-drawn funeral ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The return of horse-drawn ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Army will soon begin limited use of horse-drawn caissons for funerals at Arlington National Cemetery, phasing in the long-held tradition after nearly two years of work to ...