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Dragoon For Life print

2d Cavalry Association Custom Print
Our gift to you for a donation of $150
Here is a chance to do good and receive a beautiful and unique print from the 2d Cavalry Association.
Dr. Al Biglan recently sponsored a project to produce a unique custom print for the 2d Cavalry Association. Through his generosity Jamie Warner, a legally [...]

A True All-American

Today I had an experience I hope I never have to repeat, and yet one that has left me so much richer in mind and spirit that I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
On an island in the middle of Puget Sound between Seattle and Tacoma, the community of Vashon came together to lay to [...]

Cougars Pay Tribute to a Hero

Story by Sgt. Gerald Wilson
ZABUL, Afghanistan – Dragoons from the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment and Soldiers from Combined Team Zabul packed the small building on Forward Operations Base Apache Thursday night, July 22, to pay their respects and honor the memory of a very special hero.
First Lieutenant Robert N. Bennedsen was killed on July 18, [...]

1st Lt. Robert N. Bennedsen

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
1st Lt. Robert N. Bennedsen, 25, of Vashon, Wash., died July 18 at Qalat, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, [...]

Death in our ranks

Henry G. Carmona, 97, West Lafayette, Indiana, formerly of Michigan City, IN passed away Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 5:22 p.m. in St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis.
He was born May 23, 1913 in Mexico City, Mexico to the late Gonzalo and Maria (Gutierrez) Carmona. On October 9, 1947 in South Bend, IN he married Martha Barrios [...]

CSM (ret) Mike Besozki passes to Fiddler’s Green

CSM (ret) Mike Basozki, born January 5, 1929, passed away December 31, 2009.
Mike was born in Jefferson Township, PA. Shortly thereafter, the Basozki family moved to Windsor Heights, W. VA, where Mike grew up. 3 days after Mike’s 17th birthday, Mike enlisted in the Regular U.S. Army on January 8, 1946.
Six years later, in 1952 [...]

Great loss to the 2nd Cavalry family

DON STIVERS, one of the worlds premiere artists on the subject of US military history, and long time friend of the 2nd Cavalry and military community as a whole, passed away Thursday, November 5, 2009, while undergoing a heart procedure.
Among his vast number of paintings capturing dozens of units at a historic or memorable time [...]

Greetings from the 2d Cavalry Association, September 2008

As the summer draws to a close, children return to school, and we anticipate the change of season, the time draws near when the Regiment will return to Vilseck.  Based on reports from the field the pace of operations remains high, the Regiment continues to be very much in a fight and our troops continue [...]