President's Bodyguards: This is one of the oldest regiment earlier known as Governor General's Bodyguards and was raised in Varanasi in the year 1858, it is presently commanded by Col Adil Mahmood VSM.
And btw, Indian Army still has a regular cavalry regiment, the 61st Cavalry based out of Jaipur.
From GlobalSecurity,
Not just adding decor to the Army, this regiment also performed operational roles. With 39 battle honours, this regiment has been commended since their charge at Haifa. It was also deployed in Ganganagar sector during 1965 and also took part in operations Pawan, Rakshak, Vijay and Parakram.
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Wow ... very impressive uniforms. Then again I have always been fond of redcoatsOriginally Posted by joey
President's Bodyguards: This is one of the oldest regiment earlier known as Governor General's Bodyguards and was raised in Varanasi in the year 1858, it is presently commanded by Col Adil Mahmood VSM.
The 4th Arty Bn. and 35th Pack QM Co. were equipped with mules and a small number of horses. Those two Ft. Carson, Colorado units were deactivated in 1957 marking the end of horse and mule mounted regular army units. Their animals were transferred to other government agencies. The US Army still has horses for ceremonial purposes. I believe the US Civil Air Patrol has a horse mounted SAR unit in Texas.
Let's draw a distinction between cavalry, mounted infantry, and pack transportation.
I consider true cavalry - that means actually fighting while mounted to me - as a thing of the past. You can always point to a few circumstances in the 20th Century where horseback shock action worked or might work again. Overall, though.....well there's those small matters like grazing fire and field fortifications, among other things.
Horses on the battlefield can and do continue to serve a useful purpose as transport for both men and materials; however, being mounted to get to the fight and fighting while mounted are worlds apart.
One successful, now defunct 20th Century horse unit that hasn't been mentioned yet: Gray's Scouts, the Rhodesian mounted reconnaissance unit.
Aust SASR had some mules in Afghanistan. They were named "Roy" and "HG" (after a couple of australian comedians)
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Mounted Units We still have mounted units that are used for scout missions over mountain terrains...
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Beautiful photograph, Mounted. May I ask, is that you in the picture? I'm thinking "maybe" because of your name.
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I used to travel to Santiago quite often. It is a beautiful city, clean, modern, but not lacking in history back to the 1500's, I believe. Flying along the Andes, and passing Aconcagua (22841 ft) is breathtaking! I'd like to see more of Chile.
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I'd like to fly fish southern Chile, enjoy its great wines and sumptuous food. Right at the top of my global to-do list of places.
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There are places where no ATV and no helicopter could reach,due to the terrain or weather.A horse has few problems.
I think the horse in the picture above also needs to wear camo
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Beautiful Horse! Could you describe the mounted units more?
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Attachment 24882Attachment 24883Attachment 24884Attachment 24885Attachment 24886You are right Mihais, actually we use CAMO (is like the ghillie suit) for our horses in tactical missions but it was not the case in that picture and according to your comment, there are places where no ATV can reach.
About Chogy, sadly this is not me, but I had served in one of those scout squadrons and I can tell you that we had great results with horses in the Andes (our mountain chain). We have the capability to packing some horses with the heavy equipment and pass water obstacles, complicated terrains and also until 1m of snow.
These units are part of our mountain brigades and those are troops trained in High Mountain, that mean that during the winter season, when we have more than a meter of snow and the horses are no able to pass, the unit mach on foot and skiing.
We have very strong trying to keep this kind of units because when you lost a capability is very hard to get it again.
Ok, I hope you do like it and I really would like to know about other countries that has some similar and, why not, interchange experiences…
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Shiny stirrups, carabiner halter and a big white blaze just might blend into the snow lineThere are places where no ATV and no helicopter could reach,due to the terrain or weather.A horse has few problems.
I think the horse in the picture above also needs to wear camo
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