Merry Christmas to all Dragoons and wishing you a Happy New Year! Dragoon! As we enter the season of family and friends I cannot help but think of all the Christmases I spent away from home with my Army family. Two of my five Christmases with the Regiment were spent in foreign lands surrounded by …
Fellow Troopers: Our next reunion will be in Atlanta and will include a trip to Ft. Benning to dedicate a memorial to the fallen of the Regiment. The dedication of the memorial could make this reunion the most memorable one we have ever conducted. The dates for the reunion are April 29-May 2 2021. A lot more …
From the Editor: Dear Fellow Dragoons! I am writing to you to ask you to support our Association as we come to the year’s end. Because of the work that I personally have been doing with Veterans dealing with the effects of war related trauma, spanning moral injury, military sexual trauma and post traumatic stress, …
October, 2019 Fellow Dragoons: It’s not my intent to bombard you with email, but there is likely to be a couple of supplemental notices prior to December’s TBred. Please indulge me, the Association is becoming increasingly busy. In chronological order – My organization, Topfield Equestrian Center, still has openings for 2d Cav Troopers and Alumni …
Thoughts from the Chairman Fellow Dragoons, I wish you all well on this day, the 183rd birthday of our regiment. We can all be very proud that we each share a part of our storied history with our service in our great regiment. I feel an even greater affection to the words “Dragoon for Life” …
The Dragoon Winter Gala 2019 will be on the evening of Dec. 13th, at the Vilseck Army Airfield and will include an awards presentation, Dragooning ceremony, dinner and entertainment. Association tickets are $100 per person;lodging is available at the Kristall Inn on Rose Barracks. If you wish to add a room reservation, annotate this when …
My Fellow Dragoons: I was asked to accomplish some intel gathering, please excuse the second email in a week. Mrs. Coffey asked that if you are attending the wake for Colonel Coffey on Sunday, that you join the family afterwards. PLEASE RSVP to Sergeant Major (R) Jeffery Frans at jeffery.frans@gmail.com. After the wake food and …
Dear Dragoons: It is my sad duty to report the passing of Former Wolfpack Commander COL (R) Rod Coffey. His life will be celebrated this weekend in Maryland. Colonel Rod Andrew Coffey, passed away September 28, 2018. Col. Coffey was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to Robert and Loretta Coffey. He grew up in Rhode Island …
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We Have a Design! As reported in the last Thoroughbred, the Board has been working on the development of a memorial to the Troopers of the Regiment who gave their lives in the service of our Regiment. Our Regimental history is important to us and is important to our Regiment’s future. Most of us have …
Air insertion provides successful training opportunity KAUNAS, LITHUANIA 07.02.2018 Story by 1st Lt. Patrick Pasquet 2d Cavalry Regiment Bulldog and Cobra Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment, recently conducted an air assault with twelve howitzers as part of Saber Strike 18 in Kaunas, Lithuania, June 12, 2018. The air insertion of the twelve 155mm …