Posted on 12/23/2016 4:58:12 PM PST by digger48
PLYMOUTH, IN CULVER, Ind. - The Culver Academies' Black Horse Troop and Equestriennes have accepted an invitation to participate in the Presidential Inaugural Parade Jan. 20 for President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The parade will mark the 17th time the Black Horse Troop has marched down Pennsylvania Avenue since its first appearance in 1913.
"Securing the invitation is always the biggest challenge," said Ed Little, director of Horsemanship operations. "It's such an honor. I think the Troopers of 1913 would be very proud to know that Culver is still a part of the parade."
The 2017 Inaugural Parade marks the 104th anniversary of the primary reason the Black Horse Troop made that first trip to Washington, D.C. The mounted unit served as the official escort for Vice President Thomas Marshall during Woodrow Wilson's inaugural parade in 1913 and again in 1917. Marshall - as is Pence - was governor of Indiana prior to his election as vice president.
Their pasture is just across the road from my brothers house.
Beautiful animals
My brother in law attended Culver back when.
The Academy?
Wasn’t much mingling with “the locals” back in the day. Hasn’t changed much since, but most of the town is now owned and run by snooty libs.
George Steinbrenner was always a hit though. He’d tip the girls at the local A & W a c-note for his his cream cone.
My hubby attended Culver for 3 summer sessions
I was there in the summers in the mid 70s and rode in the Black Horse Troop. Troop A, 1st Platoon, 2nd Squad. I really enjoyed the 100 mile hikes at the end of summer. Parading through the small towns was the biggest thing they saw. I showed up knowing nothing about horses and finished jumping bareback. I learned a lot while I was there.
I didn’t think I was that snotty. The Zoomies were.
I probably saw you on one of those hikes.
I lived near Leiters Ford at the time
I was the one in the khaki riding breeches. LOL. Since I was 13-15 years old I don’t remember many of the place names. I do know we went though Bass Lake because my buddy has a cottage there where I’ve stayed during deer season for many years. I recall going by the lake.
I also recall spending a day in bivouac inside the bend of a creek and doing a steeplechase race through the fields and woods and across the creek. It was one of the most thrilling things I have ever done.
A lot of the kids were from rich families from El Salvador. Ten to fifteen years later I wondered how many of them had died fighting the rebels. Probably not the one we found sleeping with his horse when we went to stable duty just after reville.
Even on a horse at an easy gait , if you blinked going through Leiters, you’d miss it.
I graduated from Culver in ‘63 and was in the Black Horse Troop and on the special equestrian drill team, the Lancers.
Sad but true many cadets were snooty, and from some of the nations (and foreign) weathiest families. I knew some well.
But many of us were just common folk and not snooty at all. I came from a middle-class family and actually initiated the idea of my going to Culver with my parents when I was 15, and they agreed to send me if I would do well - which Culver also required or I would have been sent back a year. By God’s grace, I graduated in the top 1/4 of our class with the highest rank achievable by a 2-year student, a step below the highest.
Our whole class is in communication by email and I can tell you the vast majority are passionate conservatives - who have so angered the very few (predictable) liberals that the libs asked to be removed from many of the discussions about the election - both pre and post. Many of the comments by the conservatives fit right in line with FR and you would have thought many were members.
Those who achieved and performed well at Culver have most all gone on to be real successes in life - again, as one would predict.
I’m sorry it was the snobs (looked down on “townies”) that you met.
Please don’t judge all of us by their bad example.
We never did. We all just went our own ways and did our own things. It's not like the cadets had a lot of time to hang around town anyway
It's not a lifestyle I would have chosen at the time, but I knew most of those guys wouldn't have been there if they couldn't cut the mustard.
I've never really looked it up, but are there any notable people that are CMA alumni?
Aside from you, that is...: )
class of 1976
Battery B
When Lou Holtz coached Notre Dame Football, he once held pre-season training at CMA. He used to say that CMA was 7 minutes away from Plymouth (the local county seat) by telephone.
CMA is hard by Lake Maxincuckee, the second largest natural lake in Indiana (only Lake Wawasee, near Syracuse in neighboring Kosciusko County, is larger—I went to summer camp in 1970 at the now closed Smith-Walbridge Camp there).
C Company; 1964-69
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