October 11, 2011 – 10:16 am
Can anyone name these four intrepid climbers from 3d Squadron perched on Mt. Rainier in the early 1990′s when the Regiment was at Ft. Lewis, prior to moving to Ft. Polk? Click on photo to enlarge.
October 25, 2010 – 7:20 am
For any of you old Border Rats who patrolled the trace in the Hof area, this should bring back some memories.
Photos and story by Charlie Campbell, former H-2/2ACR commander. Click photos to enlarge.
Attached are a couple of pix taken on October 10, 2010 at Moedlareuth (or
Little Berlin as we knew it) near Hof, Germany, where [...]
February 14, 2010 – 5:03 pm
I put my carryon in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned
seat. It was going to be a long flight. ‘I’m glad I have a good book to
read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,’ I thought.
Just before takeoff, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all
the vacant seats, totally [...]
September 21, 2008 – 10:15 am
It was one of the largest tank battles of WW II, and the 2nd Cavalry Group was caught right in the middle of it. Having liberated the town of Luneville the previous day, Group was preparing to swing north on the heels of an attack by XII Corps, when the 11th Panzer Division smashed into [...]
December 23, 2000 – 8:12 pm
Written by Kevin Checchia
One night on patrol at an East German check point, our six man patrol was at our third stop looking through A/N PVS5′s. The NCOIC said that the East Germans in the guard tower were taking infared pictures of us, that’s why we kept seeing the flashes in PVS5′s. Well, this went [...]
February 23, 1991 – 5:26 pm
Submitted by: Bob Dobson
When the ground war started I was escorting a reporter from Stars and Stripes and another service. When the time table shifted we were scrambling to capture the first shot fired and located 2 HOW. The platoon we were watching fired its mission and prepared to jump. The Plt Leader, Gene Lanzillo [...]
