Our horseback riders in full beard playing Bashkai rocked
They did indeed. One of my friends, now a retired Lt. Col. Army Reserve (he started as E-1), was in the unit, although he wasn't there, that supplied some of those civil affairs guys, which is why I put them in as well as the SF guys. Of course the Texans were perfectly comfortable on those horses, their Brit counterpart didn't look nearly so comfortable in the pictures I saw.