Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than seven decades, the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as "The Old Guard," has provided ...

WASHINGTON — The horse-drawn caissons of the 3rd Infantry Regiment that have carried the caskets of deceased service members to gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery since 1948 are scheduled to ...

Inside the Army's revamped elite horse-soldier training program, where troops train for funeral missions at Arlington National Cemetery.

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 Fort Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment in ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A horse-drawn caisson will carry Officer Michael Horan to Westover Church before his funeral service on Thursday. But, what is a caisson? Here’s what we know. According to the North ...