Category Archives: Site Notes

Apprehensive? Oh yes

Two children sit in front of a US soldier from 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment on patrol in Baghdad. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Al-Qaida might be gone, but Baghdad district remains in shadows

photo by Michael Gisick/AlbuquerqueTribune
U.S. Army Spc. Coleman Tucker (front) of Roswell and Pvt. Anthony Harrington leave a house in Baghdad during a patrol. The soldiers, on patrol in late October, are part of an American cavalry squadron that fought al-Qaida militants through much of last month.

Recruitment Drive at Coalition Outpost Blackfoot

U.S. Army Pfc. Josh Smith, with the U.S. Army 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, imputes a hopeful candidates information into a governmental database, including a retina scan and fingerprint, during a recruitment drive held at Coalition Outpost Blackfoot on Nov. 12, 2007.
Photographer: Petty Officer 3rd Class David Quillen, Joint Combat Camera Center

Commander’s Message

Colonel John RisCassi, 74th Colonel of the Regiment, and Regimental Command Sergeant Major Victor Martinez, 74th Sergeant Major of the Regiment, both currently deployed in Baghdad, Iraq, with the 2nd Cavalry Stryker Regiment, sent a video message to those attending the 2007 Second Cavalry Association Reunion in the Washington, D.C. area Nov. 7-11. The message [...]

Illegal Roadside Gasoline Crackdown

U.S. Army Soldiers with the U.S. Army, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, destroy gallon jugs filled with black market gasoline, during a crackdown on illegal roadside gasoline sales in Dora, a district in the city of Baghdad, Nov. 11, 2007.
Photographer: Petty Officer 3rd Class David Quillen, Joint Combat Camera Center

THE GHOSTS OF PATTON’S THIRD ARMY

In honor of Veteran’s Day. The following is from a two page article printed in Warweek, dated Saturday, November 11, 1944.

Hitler, you never stopped them…Here are
THE GHOSTS OF PATTON’S THIRD ARMY
By France Herron
Warweek Combat Correspondent

Soldiers Work to Improve Quality of Life in Baghdad

photos by Spc. Luke Thornberry, Joint Combat Camera Center
U.S. Soldiers from Nemesis Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, take a picture of a local Iraqi, Oct. 29, 2007, Baghdad, Iraq. The purpose of the picture is to later identify the man in case the U.S. Soldiers need to question him again.

Association 2007 Reunion

Gathering of Dragoons
Our Association Reunion is held every two years and is intended to provide a venue for CAV soldiers (serving, have served and retired) to get reacquainted and to hear what is going on in “their Regiment” today. Event activities will include a presentation from a serving member of the Regiment (hopefully the Regimental [...]