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A part of the Quartermaster Corps, the U.S. Army Remount Service provided horses (and later mules and dogs) as remounts to U.S. Army units. Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount Service began systematically breeding ...
In 1891, the service became part of the Army Service Corps (ASC) [2] and the majority of other ranks at remount depots were drawn from the ASC. [ 3 ] Initially, there were three remount depots, the Remount Establishment at Woolwich (which provided horses for the Royal Artillery , Royal Engineers and Army Service Corps ) and two in Dublin (for ...
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps, formerly the Quartermaster Department, is a sustainment and former combat service support (CSS) branch of the United States Army. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Transportation Corps and the Ordnance Corps .
Remount referred to the provision of fresh horses, particularly for military purposes. [1] The word encompasses both the animals themselves and the means by which they were provided. [ 2 ] In many cases, remounts were horses provided to replace those killed or injured in battle.
Royal Thai Army Veterinary & Remount Department [30] current Switzerland: Centre of competence for Veterinary Service and Army Animals [31] current Pakistan: Remount, Veterinary, and Farming Corps (RV&FC) [32] current Estonia [33] current Slovakia [33] current Brazil: Brazilian Army Veterinary Service [34] 4 January 1908-current South Korea
Dodd Army Airfield was an airfield located within the current boundaries of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Dodd Field includes the area bounded on the north by Rittiman Road, on the west by Harry Wurzbach Memorial Highway, on the south by Winans (formerly Dashiell) Road and on the east by the Fort Sam Houston Reservation boundary.
The 28th Cavalry Regiment (Horse) (Colored) was a short-lived African American unit of the United States Army. The 28th Cavalry was the last horse-mounted cavalry regiment formed by the U.S. Army. The regiment was formed as part of the 2nd Cavalry Division in 1943 and inactivated in North Africa in 1944 without seeing combat. [1]
Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the regiment was constituted in the National Army on 18 May 1917, and organized in separate elements in early 1918. . Elements of the 312th were organized on 12 February at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on 13 March at Fort Myer, and on 23 March at Fort D.A. Ru