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Old Guard Soldiers also spend a lot of time training for those funerals. They go through at least three weeks of intensive training when they join the regiment, but it doesn’t end there.
WASHINGTON — The return of military horses that have escorted caskets to gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery for more than 75 years will depend on the Army securing adequate pastureland ...
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 services ...
Sgt. Natalee Silva, an infantry Soldier assigned to the Caisson Detachment of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, or the Old Guard, salutes during a military full honors escort validation at Fort Myer ...
Mourners gathered in Tehran for the funeral of top Iranian commanders and scientists killed in a 12-day war with Israel.
A veteran who died in Chicago without any recollection of their life has been memorialized in a funeral service with military ...
The folding of the U.S. flag during ceremonial occasions, such as military funerals, is a deeply symbolic act, with each of the 13 folds traditionally ascribed specific meanings. While these ...
One of them was 61-year-old Bob Putman of Hernando, who joined Bugles Across America two years ago. Putman grew up in Houston, Texas, and played trumpet in his middle school and high school bands.
Even far from Ukraine's front lines, military funerals set off waves of mourning. 'You can't see an end to it,' one chaplain says as the war drags on.
Funerals begin this week for three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a recent drone strike on the American military base Tower 22 in Jordan by an Iran-backed militia group.
Olena Didukh, center, the wife of the Ukrainian soldier Bohdan Didukh, after his burial at the Lychakiv military cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Monday. Digging Up Old Graves to Make Room for Newly ...