Show Your Army A Series Describing tho Arms and Service of tho Regular Army 1 THE CAVALRY From the very earliest days of the United States the Cavalry has been a combat noted for its dash and Perhaps there never has more brilliant service in any army of the world than that of the American cavalry from the days of George Washington's Continental on down through the Indian wars of the great the Civil the Spanish-American War of to the World War of 1917 and when American cavalry troops played a most important Today the Cavalry arm of the United Stales Army is still a hard-fighting order ol But the progress of modern times has brought to the Cavalry much of the mechanization which has added speed to all military In addition to horse the army of today is rapidly being equipped with mechanized where officers and men rapidly in combat or sance operations f motor-driven combat aj mored cars ana on motorcycle There have- been developed ahi special trucks which can horse Cavalry swiftly over ways to points where the can use their horses for trav over the rougher types of cour Your true Cavalryman has been a sports-loving w heeds the call of far places a the thrill of a good horse freely under But today K is also a practical mechanic a expert signal a trained and a specialist in tele map-making and man other specialties that are by experts to the thousands i wide-awake American who each year join the Unit States army to learn a trade tha will provide the basis for a well paid career in the army as as later on in civilian The Cavalryman's career is of to interesting all over the United States andl many of its overseas For Cavalry Is trained in and tor the wide open 4 |