Posted by
Dawnsblood on Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:04:13 PM
Michael Yon travels to Mosul and embeds with D-company, 2/7 Calvary. General Custer’s old unit. The link is here*.
Units like the 7th Cavalry embrace inglorious parts of their history as
strongly as the glorious, so long as the soldiers fought and died well.
General Custer was slaughtered by Sioux Indians and their allies at the
Battle of Little Big Horn, yet C-Company of 2/7 embraces Custer as one
of its fathers and calls itself Comanche Company. Comanche warriors
were not present at Custer’s Last Stand, but they were masters of the
horse, and warriors of renown. When CSM Jeffrey Mellinger dropped me
off in Mosul on the third of January after a long and dangerous Humvee
journey from Baghdad, we headed straight into a nighttime mission.
Before the mission started, the all-business battalion CSM James Pippin
told us about the famous Garry Owen Irish marching song and how
Custer’s affection for the song led to its being so closely tied to the
7th Cavalry.
* http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/desolate-roads-part-one.htm
Again sorry. Some problem here is preventing me from enbedding links. I am sorry.