The first version of the official song of the U.S. Army featured these lyrics: “Over hill, over dale, as we hit the dusty trail, And those caissons go rolling along …” If there was ever any question ...

90, a musician who adapted the "Caisson" into the official ... should adopt the old standard, "The Caissons Go Rolling Along." Dr. Arberg wrote new lyrics ("First to fight for the right, and ...

The caissons stopped rolling in 2023, and the remaining horses were retired to Florida. The Army “pulled out all the stops” to ensure the new caisson detachment has new horses, custom gear and ...

One room over, another horse plodded along, splashing in an aquatic treadmill ... facility as it attempts to overhaul its troubled caisson unit, the soldiers and horses that bring deceased ...

Horse-drawn caissons are often used during state funerals, such as the rites for President Jimmy Carter in January. His casket was carried up Capitol Hill by the first of the new caisson units the ...

Arlington National Cemetery will soon bring back caisson horses for some military ... if we underfund this moving forward, we're going to go back to the same problems we had in the past ...

The Army suspended the horse unit’s operation in May 2023 following the deaths of two horses used to haul caissons ... of using a caisson, three, two-horse teams along with three riders.

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