August 18, 2008 – 8:26 am
Members Only Offerings:
These are new online services that the Assn offers to card holding members in good standing.
Integrated G-Mail
Here is the basic rundown. If you want an e-mail address like john.doe@dragoons.org we now offer the capability free to members. The amount of free space for each account is currently 7 Gigs. Optionally you [...]
February 27, 2008 – 8:03 pm
Stars and Stripes | February 22, 2008
VILSECK, Germany — A 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment soldier will spend the next six months in jail after being convicted of possessing child pornography. Spc. Joshua Windey, 22, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a DVD and laptop computer containing 26 images and two videos of the sexual abuse of [...]
November 8, 2007 – 9:01 am
The Association History Center is sadly in need of someone to work on compiling our regiment’s Gulf experience. Anyone interested, please contact the History Center editor Dave Gettman.
May 23, 2007 – 9:01 pm
As quoted from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070515-9.html
I have chosen Lieutenant General Douglas Lute to serve as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan. General Lute is a tremendously accomplished military leader who understands war and government and knows how to get things done. While serving at Central Command, General Lute played an [...]
May 9, 2007 – 9:07 pm
From the New York Times – Electronic Edition
WASHINGTON, May 8 – The Pentagon said Tuesday that it had informed an additional 35,000 soldiers that they were likely to be heading to Iraq by December, a move that would allow the Army to maintain heightened American troop levels into next year.
Overall American force levels in Iraq [...]
March 24, 2007 – 7:02 pm
Dateline January 25 2007. The Association News Center has returned. After several months of downtime due to a security incident on the site we have returned with a new suite of software and a whole new modern look for the site.
So now its time for a bit of history….
1994 (I think) the site was started [...]
January 1, 2007 – 7:53 pm
The Second Cavalry Association was founded in 1899, after the Spanish-American War. It is a private organization of individuals who have served with the regiment. It stands today as the first and oldest veterans organization established around a particular unit. Membership is open to any member or former member of the Regiment, and includes a [...]
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 [...]