FRIDAY FOTO (July 6, 2018)

Boots and Saddles.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant David Edge)

Bet you didn’t expect to see this image on a blog devoted to 4th Generation Warfare.

Members of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s Horse Detachment conduct the ceremonial last charge during a change-of-command ceremony at Fort Irwin, California on June 28, 2018.

They are dressed in the cavalry uniform of 1901, the year the 11th Cavalry Regiment was created. It first saw service in the Philippine-American War (formerly known as the Philippine Insurrection. For more about the 11th Cavalry’s history, click here.

For the record, the last U.S. Army cavalry charge was in the Philippines in 1942, when a platoon of the 26th Cavalry charged Japanese troops, and routed them, on the Bataan Peninsula.