April 2014 The Blackhorse

Riding with the Blackhorse: Vignettes out of Our Regiment’s sent it to all camps, posts, and stations. 1941 History However, the instructions from Washington Desert Warfare Training By Don Snedeker were that taking the shot was entirely voluntary. April 2014 Only about one-third of the Troopers of the Eleventh Cavalry Regiment volunteered to take 1907 the shot. This was unsatisfactory to the A Second Lieutenant with a Map Regimental Commander, Colonel James Parker. He issued an order on 7 September directing that all officers and Troopers under the age of 50 would be expected to take the shot. Exceptions could be made when requested in writing. However, due to the threat of an epidemic in the civilian community, those who did not receive Trooper Sid Stark - 11th U.S. Cavalry the vaccine would not be allowed to go off post At Camp Lockett, 1942 on pass “where they run danger of infection.” In 1918, the Eleventh Cavalry departed Fort Everyone dutifully lined up and was inoculated. Oglethorpe, Georgia, for its new home in The Eleventh Cavalry Regiment (minus First California. While most of the Regiment Squadron) was serving as part of the U.S. went to the Presidio at Monterey, Echo forces sent to Cuba to put down a rebellion. initially occupied a bivouac in the Troopers were located in Pinar del Rio (the Campo Valley in the high desert west of heart of the Cuban tobacco plantations) and . Two decades later, the entire Camp Columbia near Havana. In addition to Regiment rode south from Monterey, with patrolling on horseback and maintaining order, orders to establish a long-term horse cavalry officers of the Regiment assisted in making a camp in the same location. After a 54-day map of the island. Each officer, accompanied trek on horseback, Second Squadron by one or two mounted Troopers, was armed Troopers rode into the valley (known to the with a prismatic compass and a sketch book. Native Americans who originally lived in The teams were sent out for months at a time, the area as ‘big foot’) on Thanksgiving Day, measuring and sketching the landscape, then 1941. Although the attack on Pearl Harbor returning to provide input to the mapmakers. was still two weeks away, war clouds were The whole project took many months. The already on the horizon. According to the final map, with a scale of three miles to one LA Times, the “tough-bitten” 11th Cavalry inch, measured 24 feet long. had the missions of patrolling the near-by 1910 border with Mexico, protecting the West Life is Full of Choices Coast in case of a Japanese invasion, and In the summer of 1910, there was a typhoid guarding the far-flung San Diego dams and fever epidemic sweeping the country. An reservoirs from sabotage. The new camp, Army doctor had developed a vaccine against which cost the Army Corps of Engineers the fever the previous year, and the War Dept. $1,000,000 to construct, was named Camp Colonel James Parker Lockett, in honor of the 4th Colonel of the 3rd Colonel of the Regiment Regiment (1913-1915). It lay just two Inside This Issue miles from the Mexican border in an area President’s Message……...……….…...... 2 accessible only on a horse. One history of 65th Colonel’s Message…...……….…...... 3 the camp described the terrain and weather Additional Association Notes...... 3 in the region: “The surrounding terrain Chapter Information/Officers..…....…...... 4 offers unparalleled opportunities to test Front page continued………...... ………....…5 man, beast and mechanized carriers over a Fundraising Event...... 6 wide variety of terrain that includes heavily Paver Project...... 7 wooded underbrush, desert sand, miles of Reunion info and signup ....…...... ….….8&9 barren, rocky wastelands, streams to be Trooper/NCO Awards…...... ……..……….10 forded, and other geographic hazards Blackhorse Store…………..….....………...11 identical to those which confront cavalry Membership application…....…...... ………12 Continued on page 5

Blackhorse Association Web Site is: http://www.blackhorse.org President’s Message by Glenn Snodgrass, President, Blackhorse Association Page 2

The Association continues to operate status with the IRS) – please contribute YourMount evening (including some more on a sound financial footing: 2013 was to our 1901 Club or simply send a check inductees into the Regiment’s Honorary a great year with a wonderful reunion to our treasurer earmarking the donation. Scrolls), and a Saturday night banquet, with in Louisville, 20 scholarships were (2) If you want to contribute to our GEN JD Thurman tentatively to be our guest given, and important donations were Scholarship Fund, please become a speaker. We will have a memorial service at received from hundreds of members. member of the Allons Club or simply our Memorial tank located nearby, tours of With your help, 2014 can be even send a check to our treasurer earmarking Fort Carson, and perhaps a trip to Cheyenne better. the donation. Mountain. If you have any silent auction (3) If you want to help us move our items to contribute, please call Charley Update on the Move of the regimental monument from Fort Knox to (Home: Regimental Monument , you may buy a paver (see 719-576-0559; Cell: 970-620-0402). article elsewhere in this newsletter) or This information can also be found on our Some of you may not know that we are simply send a check to our treasurer www.blackhorse.org and going to move the regimental earmarking the donation. www.blackhorse.com websites – or call me monument from its current location at The mailing address for all contributions with any questions the Patton Museum near Fort Knox to is: The Blackhorse Association (703-250-3064 or 703-407-4038). a new site adjacent to the future Armor ATTN: Treasurer and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning Communications P. O. Box 84093 (it is a long story - suffice it to say that Lexington, SC 29073 once the Home of Armor moved from Clint Ancker, our Director of The website offers an easy credit card/ Knox to Benning, and all the armored Communications, asks that you make us PayPal option of making contributions vehicles were taken from the Patton aware of things which you think would be of for any purpose. If you know of any Museum to Benning, there was little interest to the Association membership – just Blackhorse veterans who are not choice for us but to move the send either of us what you have in mind members of the Association, please monument – if we ever expected lots electronically or call us anytime (Clint – encourage them to join. of people to come see it). 913-724-4420), or send to Clint at 17946 We are working closely with our How you can help us save 156th Terrace, Bonner Springs, KS, 66012. sister organization, the 11th Armored money If you have access to a computer, please Cavalry Veterans of Vietnam and check our website at www.blackhorse.org for Cambodia (11th ACVVC) to execute A major goal is to continue to reduce a wealth of information about the Association and pay for the move. Association expenses. If you have and the active regiment, and give us your We have coordinated with Fort access to a computer and email, you can email address so that we can send you our Knox for departure requirements, and help immensely if you would be willing monthly e-news items. Greg Hallmark has are working with monument to go paperless (and save us the cost of done a marvelous job over the last year companies at both sites. printing and mailing this newsletter making our website a state-of-the-art place to We are also going to take this twice a year). It’s easy – just go to our visit, but we are always looking for ways to opportunity to enhance our monument website at www.blackhorse.org and click make the website better. – with more history, our campaign on the “Go Paperless” link at the top of streamers, our patch, our crest, our the home page. If you do not have Memorabilia crossed sabers and more – we want it access to a computer and email – no to stand out and be something all of us worry – we will continue to send this Finish Line Awards (FLA), our can be proud to visit and to call our publication via regular mail. own - it will represent all eras of memorabilia vendor, continues to do a superb Blackhorse service. Our target for Reunion in June job of offering quality merchandise - see their completion is the spring of 2015. advertisement elsewhere in this newsletter. As always, we need your assistance It is now time to get your registration FLA has had such a profitable year, that they to help us pay for all of this. Please forms submitted for our upcoming have been able to contribute a portion of their see the 3rd subparagraph below if you reunion in Colorado Springs, CO, which profits to the Association. would like to contribute. will be held June 12-15. [See the flyer and registration forms elsewhere in this Any Questions about anything – don’t ever How You Can Help us newsletter.] We are getting early hesitate to call me (703-250-3064 or Financially indications of a very good turnout – we 703-407-4038) or any member of the Board of have already topped our initial room Directors (see page 4 for a complete listing). (1) If you want to contribute to our minimums, so we are encouraging you to Operations fund (the cost of running get your hotel reservations soon. ALLONS AND the Association including newsletters, Charley Watkins has been heading up BLACKHORSE FOREVER the website with eblasts, postage, a large planning team for several months ! essential administrative and statutory and plans are starting to come together. filing costs – the latter to protect our We will have a golf tournament on 501 (3) (c) non-profit, charitable Thursday, a casual Friday night Stable

From the Battle Front 65th Colonel of the Blackhorse ...COL Lanier Ward Page 3

and Family members the past 5 months as A Moving Tribute to our Men and Women in the interim CSM for the Regiment. CSM Uniform and a Reading of the Declaration of Ashmead and Sheri, his spouse of 21 years Independence and mother to their four children, joins the In case you missed it, your Regiment was Black Horse Regiment from 1ABCT, featured during the Superbowl pregame reading of the Declaration of Independence. Regiment is 2IDSouth Korea. at mark 00:05 and 05:19. Below is the link to the We have the honor of hosting 3d video. Enter this in your browswer and enjoy! Cavalry Regiment for Rotation 14-05 this http://msn.foxsports.com/video? month which is scheduled to be the last vid=21dc555c-3d19-4b0a-9839-fbc1359dcd2b unit to train here prior to deploying in Blackhorse Troopers, Veterans, support of Operational Enduring Freedom. A Note from an Early Scholarship Winner - and all our supporting Family and Friends, It’s a rare occasion that our two Cavalry the second quarter of 2014 has been an Scott Nicholson, son of Platoon Sergeant Glenn Regiments get to occupy the same area and Nicholson, KIA 5 May 1968 exciting one. First, we had the honor of we are honored to host them for a “Lucky beating up on the 3d Striker Brigade from 16” gathering at Regimental Museum (This note was sent to us after Scott saw the 2ID and the 1st Brigade from 1st CAV in when their training is complete. Our article about another early scholarship winner in training rotations before taking a moment “Lucky 16” celebrates whenever at least the December eBlast.) to honor our heritage by conducting our two of the three Regiments of the 2d, 3d or Regimental Ball in Las Vegas. We are 11th (16) get together for any operation. This is a note regarding the item about one of the now fully immersed in preparing our sister As always, our doors are open to first scholarships awarded in 1972. My brother, Regiment, 3d Cavalry Regiment, for their you; once a Blackhorse, always a David, was awarded one of the first two BHA upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. Blackhorse. ALLONS! scholarships in 1972; however, he was not able to After an overwhelming success use it as over time, the BHA lost contact with my last year with our Regimental Ball in San family. Then in 1989, when I was a first-semester Diego, we asked our Troopers this year sophomore at Wichita State University and while The Regiment on Parade what they wanted to do for their Ball. They researching the impact of aging and health care on responded that they wanted to shift Vietnam veterans, I ran across the address for the The photograph below was taken during a operations this year and do it in Vegas. The ceremony to honor RCSM Steven Travers, BHA: PO Box 11, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. I penned a South Point Hotel obliged us and was a who is leaving the Regiment to become the letter to "whom it may concern" requesting that if gracious host in allowing the Regimental Command Sergeant Major of the National anyone served with my Dad, PSgt. Glenn E Horse Detachment to conduct a Cavalry Training Center. A hearty Blackhorse Nicholson (H Co, 3rd Platoon), to please contact demonstration at their resident equestrian congratulations to CSM Travers! me. A few weeks later I received a phone call center. The demonstration attracted from CSM Bill Squires. No mention of the hundreds of spectators and portrayed our scholarship was made in my letter, I figured it was Regiment in a positive light. South Point long gone and had been awarded to my brother. even agreed to permit me to ride a horse Much to my surprise, the first thing CSM Squires into the ballroom for our culmination to the asked is if David was in school; unfortunately he Grog Bowl Ceremony. Regardless of the was not. He then said that it could be transferred to my name; at that time I was the only one of 8 bets that were placed, I didn’t get bucked kids in college. While my brother was the off as part of the entrance but it was originally named recipient, and deservedly so, I agreeably one of my quickest dismounts was honored to be the one who benefited from the ever. The Ball itself was an extravagant scholarship. I owe a lifelong debt of gratitude to event where we honored the traditions of CSM Squires for the promise he made to a fallen the Regiment and recognized many of our trooper, the dedication of General Patton, and the Troopers for the contributions they’ve ultimate sacrifice made by my father and all made to their individual branches. Our troopers KIA. In an odd twist of fate, I am loved ones and veterans who joined us in indebted to my brother as well. the celebration appreciated the opportunity Throughout my career, the BHA Scholarship has to share in the elegant experience and opened doors that I did not anticipate, whether the helped us close the night out by letting it reference was made in my resume or when made loose on the dance floor. in conversation with a colleague or business The Regiment returned safely from the prospect. The interest shown by others in the BHA Ball without incident and held a “Change and the 11th ACR lineage is a powerful testament of Responsibility” ceremony on March 12. to taking care of our own. To all 11th ACR and We welcomed Command Sergeant Major BHA members, thank you for your sacrifices - (CSM) Carl Ashmead as the 21st they do not go unnoticed. On behalf of my family, Command Sergeant Major of the 11th thank you! ACR and bid farewell to Command Sergeant Major Phillip Simpao who did an outstanding job taking care of our Troopers Page 4

The Blackhorse Family The Blackhorse family consists of veterans of the Blackhorse Regiment and attached units from all eras of 11th Cavalry Service. It also includes General Membership Meetings, Other Points of Contact their family members, as well as friends of the Chapter Information, &Events Blackhorse. Our Regiment at this time includes the Fort Irwin Chapter 1-144 Field Artillery regimental units at Fort Irwin; 1st Battalion, 144th CPT Anthony Bradley, Adjutant MSG Robert Allinder Field Artillery of the California Army National 11 ACR, PO Box 105068 Headquarters, 1-144 FA Guard; and 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry of the Fort Irwin, CA 92310 3800 West Valhalla Drive Nevada Army National Guard. All have served or 760-380-5740 Burbank, CA 91505-1128 are now serving in the War on Terrorism. While [email protected] 818-462-6729 attached to 2nd Squadron in Iraq, 155th Heavy The Fort Irwin Chapter sponsors a golf [email protected] Brigade Combat Team lost 6 of the 21 Blackhorse Troopers KIA in Iraq. Blackhorse Association tournament, a marathon, as well as 155 ABCT Membership is extended to all of the above, various other events each year to raise LTC Michael Hunter through Regular, Associate and Corporate funds that support various community 155 HBCT, MSARNG Memberships. (See page 12) activities on Fort Irwin, and the 2705 W. Jackson Street Blackhorse Association. Tupelo, MS 38803 Never should one generation of Gold Vault Chapter 662-891-9709 Blackhorse Veterans abandon a later [email protected] Richard Wells, President generation of Blackhorse Veterans or Rondo Jackson, Secretary Blackhorse Troopers Motor Cycle 531 Sugar Branch Road Active Troopers. Group Big Clifty, KY 42712 [email protected] Ken Jankel Blackhorse Association Officers 4877 Lofty Oak Drive 270-242-2833 Redding, CA 96002 President J. Glenn Snodgrass Air Cavalry Troop Chapter 530-222-2211 [email protected] James Angelini www.blackhorsetroopers.org 703-250-3064 2512 Lower Hunters Trace Louisville, KY 40216 Vice President Jim Tankovich 502-449-0262 [email protected] [email protected] 757-357-2168 Washington D.C. Chapter Secretary Charley Watkins John Sylvester [email protected] 11601 Tori Glen Court 719-576-0559 Herndon, VA 20170 703-724-6747 Treasurer Crystal Kruger [email protected] Scholarships [email protected] The chapter meets quarterly. Two of 803-755-7389 those meetings coincide with Memorial The Blackhorse Association and Blackhorse Scholarships were born of a promise made Fund Raising Don Wicks and Veterans Day activities. [email protected] by Sergeant Major Paul (“Bill”) Squires Nevada/Wildhorse Chapter 509-943-5118 (deceased) and (then) Colonel George S. CSM Paul Kinsey Patton (deceased) to a dying L Troop trooper Membership Dale Skiles Headquarters, 1/221 Cavalry on 2 March 1969 on a battlefield in 6400 Range Road [email protected] Vietnam. The vow to “not let people forget 501-749-8888 North Las Vegas, NV 89115 us” and “take care of our kids” became the 775-315-1608 PO Box 13291 Maumelle, inspiration to form the Blackhorse AR 72113 [email protected] Association later that year at Fort Knox, KY. We now include all Blackhorse Veterans and Blackhorse Regiment Cavalry Scholarships Bob Hurt Active Duty Troopers. Information and an Motorcycles [email protected] application can be found on page 10 or on 281-364-7285 Beau Richards the website at ‘www.blackhorse.org’ or 7740 Balboa Blvd, # 146 contact: Communications/Editor Clint Ancker Van Nuys, CA 91406 Bob Hurt, Scholarship Director [email protected] 913-724-4420 818-427-3106 The Blackhorse Association [email protected] 75 E Shadowpoint Circle Special Projects Director Glenn Allardyce www.bhrcm.com The Woodlands, TX 77381 [email protected] 281-364-7285 The BHRCM support various charities 281-469-4034 [email protected] and many Regimental events. Historian Roger Cirillo Houston/SE Texas Chapter [email protected] Glenn Allardyce 703-719-7252 11835 Cathy Drive Museum Curator SSG Michael McLean Houston, Texas 77065 [email protected] 281-787-0727 760-380-6607 [email protected] 11th ACR PAO CPT Chad Cooper The chapter holds quarterly meetings [email protected] and hosted the 2010 Houston Reunion. 760-380-5112 Page 5 Continued from page 1

troopers in battle conditions. Climatically this prepared to assault the area directly beneath But it was the 300-plus mostly women is a region of extremes. There is summer heat where the A-Bomb had exploded. Within an demonstrators who gathered outside the gates of of 115 degrees; freezing temperature in winter. hour of the blast, 120 paratroopers jumped from Downs Barracks in late September that were of the Long dry spells alternate with cloudbursts.” C-46s, while the 11th Cavalry tank platoon, most interest to the Blackhorse Troopers. After This was to be one of the Army’s first training accompanied by infantrymen and engineers, reading a statement in German and English areas for horse cavalry operations in a desert assaulted the objective. The Sixth Army condemning the East-West arms race, the environment. However, 11th Cavalry Troopers Commander, LTG Joseph Swing, was quoted demonstrators marched to the Dom (cathedral) in turned in their horses for armored vehicles later as saying: “The only difficulty we downtown Fulda, where a council of German before they had much of a chance to train in the experienced was that everybody got a mouthful Catholic bishops was underway. Twenty of the desert. of dirt when the shockwave swept past.” He “anarchists and criminals” were arrested when they concluded: “The fireball was just another piece tried to force their way into a meeting of the 1952 of firepower to us." The general failed to bishops. Meanwhile, the platoon occupying OP Ground Zero mention that the ‘mouthful of dirt’ was Alpha was placed on high alert as 20 demonstrators radioactive. were at work in Rasdorf. This group of protesters 1984 released white balloons with the slogans “swords Anti-War Demonstrations into plowshares” and “unilateral disarmament” on them. The prevailing winds carried the ‘peace balloons’ into East Germany, where they undoubtedly went into the Stasi archives. The National Personnel Records Center(NPRC) has provided the following website for veterans to gain access to their DD-214's: http://www.vetrecs.archives.gov/ For Inquiries not referenced in this issue, contact the Secretary at: Charley Watkins Secretary, Blackhorse Association 3113 B Broadmoor Valley Road Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Phone: 719-576-0559 LTG Sam Wetzel was, by most accounts, a Cell: 970-620-0402 straight-spoken man. So, when anti-NATO [email protected] demonstrators attempted to disrupt the Autumn Forge 84 exercise, it came as no surprise that the V Corps Commander labeled them “anarchists In 1952, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and criminals.” The REFORGER exercise Mail Scholarship & Operations was stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado. This involved over 300,000 U.S., British, Belgian and Donations to: was a period of major changes for the Army, as West German , to include the entire 11th Blackhorse Association the lessons of the Korean War were being ACR. The exercise was carried out along the ATTN: Treasurer assimilated. However, the primary driver of famous Fulda Gap, giving First Squadron a P.O. Box 84093 Lexington, SC 29073 change was the need to design a ground force home field advantage in the war game. Not capable of operating on an atomic battlefield. surprisingly, troops from the Warsaw Pact The Soviets had detonated their first atomic conducted their own “Shield 84” exercise in East bomb just three years earlier. As a result, U.S. Germany and Czechoslovakia at the same time. Army soldiers were being organized and trained to fight both a conventional war (as in Korea) The Blackhorse Association, Inc. and an atomic war (as expected in Europe). How you can help the Soldiers were also being used to test the effects Blackhorse Association. (a non-profit organization) of atomic warfare. Such was the case on 22 The Blackhorse Newsletter is printed and The Blackhorse is published for the benefit of April 1952 when a platoon of 11th Cavalry mailed twice annually to some 15,565 members and friends of The Blackhorse Asso- Troopers in M-41 tanks, along with paratroopers members. We believe this publication is vital to ciation. This newsletter contains past, present, from the 82nd Airborne Division, and small fulfilling the principles of our organization. and future news of interest that includes detachments of infantrymen, engineers, and However, approximately 42 percent of the membership information, reunion updates and medical personnel set up in the Yucca Flats operating expense of the association involves Atomic Proving Ground in Nevada. The troops printing and mailing the paper version. We can various fundraising activities as well as were located just four miles away when the sharply reduce these costs if you have access to articles of interest submitted by Troopers from bomb, dropped from a B-50 bomber, detonated a computer and choose to receive the newsletter many eras of Blackhorse service. Submissions electronically. You can do so by visiting 3,500 feet above the desert sands. A reporter for the are welcome and encouraged. All newsletter website (www.blackhorse.org) and clicking the the Los Angeles Times, who was on the scene, correspondence or inquiries should be made News and Events page, and under "Newsletter" in writing to: described it: “A searing sun, unshielded by click on the red words and provide your Blackhorse Editor clouds, was blacked out at the instant of the preferred email address for delivery. unworldly incandescence of the initial flash.” 17946 156th Terrace Ten seconds after the blast, the infantrymen got Bonner Springs, KS 66012 out of their foxholes and the Cavalry Troopers [email protected] opened the hatches on their tanks. The GIs Deadlines: January 15 & July 15 reportedly “laughed and cracked jokes” as they Page 6 Page 7

11th Cavalry Memorial Paver Project

Planning for the relocation of the 11th Cavalry memorial from Fort Knox to the planned new National Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning has begun. It is anticipated that the first phase of development of the National Armor and Cavalry Museum will be completed by October 2013. Our goal is to complete the move and construction of the new memorial site no later than early 2015. This gives us approximately two years to complete the project. The entire memorial complex will be moved, including the large Vietnam Memorial, the three memorials (obelisks) that are dedicated to the Philippine, World War II and Iraqi Freedom campaigns, plus the nearly 1,100 granite bricks that surround the memorial. All bricks will be catalogued prior to the move and will be placed in the new location in the same relative position. The cost of the move will be shared between the Blackhorse Association and the 11th Armored Cavalry's Veterans of Vietnam and Cambodia. To help offset the cost of this project both organizations will be offering new granite bricks. Anyone can purchase a memorial brick. Memorial bricks are a lasting tribute of your service to our regiment. The bricks enable all of us to participate and show our support for our fellow Blackhorse troopers whose names are listed on the memorials. The bricks measure 8 x 4 x 2 inches and can accommodate inscriptions of up to three lines of 15 characters per line. Many choose to have their name, unit and years of service with the regiment inscribed on their brick. Others choose to have a special message inscribed. Some of the messages are very touching: "IN OUR HEARTS", "BROTHERS 4-EVER", "I NEVER FORGET" and "ALL GAVE SOME-SOME GAVE ALL" are just a few of the personal messages on the bricks. The cost of a granite brick is $100. We are beginning this fundraiser now so we can insure that sufficient funds are available in plenty of time to complete the project by early 2015. The bricks will be placed at the new memorial site at Fort Benning during the construction phase. The bricks add a very special and personal touch to the memorial. We urge you to support this worthwhile project by purchasing a brick.

11th Armored Cavalry Memorial - Brick Order Form Print your message in the boxes below exactly as you want your brick to appear. Be sure to leave a blank box between words. Each line accommodates a maximum of 15 characters, including blank boxes and punctuation (commas, periods, hyphens). If ordering more than one brick, photocopy this form or use a separate sheet of paper. Each brick is 4” x 8” x 2”.

Name______Phone______Address______City______State______Zip______Check enclosed ($100 per brick)_____ Visa_____MasterCard_____ Card # ______Exp Date _____ Amount to be charged to credit card $______

Signature (Required for Credit Cards) ______Note: If ordering more than one brick, please submit a separate form for each. Please make checks payable to: The Blackhorse Association. Mail this form with your check or credit card information (no cash please) to: Don Wicks Director of Fundraising The Blackhorse Association 1807 Hunt Avenue Richland, WA 99354-2645 Page 8

The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's Blackhorse Association will hold its annual Blackhorse Family Runion 12-15 June 2014 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The reunion is open to all past and present troops who served with the Regiment, the REgimental Community, and all separate units who supported the Regiment. The reunion will be held at the Hotel Elegante Conference and Event Center, 2886 South Circle Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80908. The Elegante is in the process of a major/several million dollar renova-tion. Rooms have been set aside for reunion attendees at a special negotiated rate of $115 per night. Attendees are encouraged to make plans early. For reservations please visit https://www.reseze.net/cassets/mkt/mcmelegante/landing_pages/MCM_Colorado_Blackhorse_Association.html or call (800) 981-4012 (reservations) or you can call their Front Desk directly at (719) 576-5900 (and be sure to tell them our Group ID number: 693108 and that you are attending the Blackhorse reunion). For additional lodging options, go to http://www.expedia.com/Colorado-Springs-Hotels.d602991.Travel-Guide-Hotels.

The Schedule of Events Is: Thursday, June 12: 8am – 5pm: Registration/Hospitality Room/Silent Auction 8am – Until: Blackhorse Store Open 7am: Golf Tournament - first tee time 0800 at Fort Carson course. They have plenty of golf clubs, shoes and carts to rent. We need to know who wants to play golf. 1pm – 4pm: Tour of Fort Carson Sightseeing on your own (see options below) 6pm – Until: Hospitality Room (about 9PM) open bar in the lobby.

Friday, June 13: 8am – 5pm: Registration/Hospitality Room/Silent Auction 8am – Until: Blackhorse Store Open 7am – 10am: 5th Annual Reunion Motorcycle Rally 10am: Load buses for Memorial Service 10:30am –11:30am: Memorial Service at Blackhorse Memorial tank Sightseeing on your own (see options below) 6pm – Until: Stable Your Mount casual evening social (bar opens and food served at 6pm and program begins at 7pm). Cash bar with heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Saturday, June 14: 8am – 3pm: Registration/Hospitality Room/Silent Auction 8am – 5pm: Blackhorse Store Open (Reopen for one hour following banquet) 8am – 9am: Association Directors closed meeting 9am – 11am: Association Annual Business meeting. All members are encouraged to attend. Sightseeing on your own (see options below) 6pm – 10pm: Cocktails/Banquet (Coat & Tie recommended). Cocktails begin at 6pm, dinner at 7pm. Program includes announcement of scholarship recipients for this year. Keynote speaker tentatively will be GEN JD Thurman, recently retired CINC in Korea. Silent Auction winners will be announced.

Sunday, June 15: 9am: Non-denominational church service-Hospitality Room Farewells

There are over 50 tourist attractions in the Colorado Springs area. Some of the more popular sights are as listed below, but you will find others in your reunion bags:

Pikes Peak Air Force Academy and Chapel Garden of the God Old Colorado City Manitou Springs National WWII Aviation Museum Cave of the Winds Seven Falls Cliff Dwellings Cheyenne Mountain Zoo US Olympic Training Center Broadmoor Hotel North Pole Pikes Peak Cog Railway Gambling in Cripple Creek

Registration fee is $95 for adults and $30 for children 12 and under who do not attend the banquet. This fee covers reunion mementos, small hors d'oeuvres at the Friday evening Stable Your Mount social, the Saturday banquet with wine, and other reunion costs. Please complete the attached registration form and make checks payable to “The Blackhorse Association”. Attendee transportation, including airfare, rental car, and lodging must be organized separately. For more information, see www.blackhorse.org and www.blackhorse.com; or contact one of the following Reunion Committee members: Charley Watkins at (719) 576 0059, [email protected], Tom Smart at (703) 973 3703, [email protected], or Glenn Snodgrass at (703) 250 3064, [email protected], Page 9

REGISTRATION FORM Blackhorse Reunion Colorado Springs June 12-15, 2014 Please complete and return with your check ($95 per adult; $30 per child 12 and under not attending banquet) made payable to “The Blackhorse Association,” or credit card information (see below).

Name: ______Address:______City______State______Zip:______

Home Phone:______Cell Phone:______E-Mail Address:______Unit(s) and Dates Served:______ATTENDEES: In addition to your name above. Also, please indicate anyone under 12, and any special food needs for the banquet, which will be served buffet-style and include beef, chicken and vegetarian options. NAME(s) ______Please send your completed registration form along with your check or credit card information to: Tom Smart 18890 Loudoun Orchard Road Leesburg, VA 20175

For Credit Card Users: MC ___ Visa ___ Discover___ Number:______(We cannot accept American Express)

Expiration Date: ______Dollar amount to be charged $______

Name as it appears on credit card: ______Billing address (street or P.O., city, state, zip code) ______

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Trooper Support: If you would like to support an active regimental trooper to attend the reunion events, please include your donations below as a part of your overall registration fee. Any funds remaining will be donated to the scholarship fund. Yes, I would like to sponsor active troopers to the reunion.

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Please register early – it will help with our planning. A full refund will be provided for cancellations that are received by May 31, 2014. Page 10 Blackhorse Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer Awards It is with great pride that the members of the Blackhorse Association recognize the achievements of the Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer of the Quarter of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. We are de-lighted to see these leaders and potential leaders excel and carry forward the proud traditions of our Regiment. The Blackhorse Association presents each recipient with a monogrammed windbreaker and Association Membership as a small token of our thanks for their service to our Regiment and our Nation. SOLDIER NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER 2nd Quarter, FY 14

Soldier of the Quarter, Specialist Adam J. Stafford NCO of the Quarter, Sergeant Anthony W. Lancaster Specialist Stafford is a 35M Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collector. He attended the University of Texas at Arlington where he earned a SGT Anthony Lancaster spent almost four years in the Bachelor's degree in Police Science and Sociology and was honored as Arkansas Army National Guard. He transitioned into the Active a two-time All-American in Track and Field. He completed Basic Combat Army in December 2009. He attended Basic Combat Training Training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and Advanced Individual Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Jackson, South at Fort Huachuca, AZ, graduating in the top five Soldiers in his class. Carolina. His first active duty station was Fort Riley, Kansas Fort Irwin is his first duty station and he is assigned to the Vanguard where he was as a Paralegal Specialist in the 1st Infantry Military Intelligence , Regimental Support Squadron. He is the Division, and later was a battalion paralegal for the 84th Team Leader for the HUMINT Collection Team. During training rotations, Ordnance Battalion (EOD). He was selected to be on his SPC Stafford operates undercover to gain actionable intelligence in battalion commander's personnel security detail due to his support of the Regimental Commander's Priority Intelligence fknowledge of convoy security from his National Guard time. Requirements. He is also responsible for conducting classes on Tactical Questioning for Vanguard MICO and TICO Soldiers. His civilian education includes thirty-three credit hours with Park University in the pursuit of an Associate's Degree in SPC Stafford has earned the Army Achievement Medal, two Certificates Criminal Justice. Among other awards, he has earned the Army of Achievement, and the Order of Hamby, Third Class for his excellence Achievement Medal (2 OLC), Army Commendation Medal, Army in Human Intelligence Collection. He graduated the Warrior Leader's Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Commendation Course on the Commandant's List in July 2013. SPC Stafford's short- Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Global War term goals include promotion to Sergeant, starting his Master's Degree, On Terrorism Service Medal. SGT Lancaster intends compelete and representing the Regimental Support Squadron and 11th ACR at his Associates degree in Criminal Justice. He wants to become the Fort Irwin/National Training Center Soldier of the Year competition. the Fort Irwin NCO of the Year. He also intends to actively work SPC Stafford's long-term goals are to make the Army a career, earn the to better himself and his career through military education and rank of Command Sergeant Major, finish his Master's Degree, and promotion to Sergeant Major. He wants to be the Army complete a PhD. He is married to Taryn Stafford and has a step-son, Noncommissioned Officer of the Year. He is married to Liane Tayler Knutsen. Marie, and they have three sons: Jacob, Brayden, and Alexander. Page 11 The Blackhorse NON-PROFIT April 2014 U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT 326 The Blackhorse Association, Inc Bryan, TX PO Box 13291 77801 Maumelle, AR 72113

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BLACKHORSE ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION UPDATE _____ NEW APPLICATION _____ FIRST NAME______M.I.___ LAST NAME ______MAILING ADDRESS______CITY/STATE/ZIP______PHONE NUMBER______EMAIL ADDRESS ______PERMANENT ADDRESS______CITY/STATE/ZIP______BLACKHORSE SERVICE: UNIT ______DATES (MO/YR to MO/YR) ______UNIT ______DATES (MO/YR to MO/YR) ______UNIT ______DATES (MO/YR to MO/YR) ______

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Instructions: Lifetime and Annual Memberships are open to all Troopers who served with the 11th ACR. Associate Memberships are open to family and friends of the Regiment. Please fill out all required information and return this form with check or money order, payable (no cash please) to the following address: The Blackhorse Association, Inc. ATTN: MEMBERSHIP P.O. Box 13291 Maumelle, AR 72113

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