Brave Rifles Micro Cache Traditional Cache
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MGRS 38 S KC 6317044988
Elevation: 140 meters
Dedicated to the troopers of the 3d ACR!
The 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment has a long, proud history. For more than 150 years, the Brave Rifles have served on the frontiers of freedom, defending the national interests of the United States. Now, the Regiment is the last heavy cavalry regiment in the active Army.
The Regiment of Mounted Riflemen was authorized by an Act of Congress on December 1, 1845 and the president signed the bill in law May 19, 1846. Thus came into existence a new organization in the United States Army: a regiment of riflemen, mounted to provide greater mobility than the Infantry and equipped with percussion rifles to provide greater range and more accurate firepower than the Infantry’s muskets or the Dragoon’s carbines. From the hills of central Mexico to the deserts of Iraq the 3d ACR has always been on the cutting edge of history.
Through six campaigns of the Mexican War, 3d ACR distinguished itself. On 20 August 1847, General Winfield Scott, Commander of American Forces in Mexico, made the speech from which the first sixteen words have become so important to the Regiment. The Regiment laid bloodied and exhausted from the fierce fighting at Contreras. But even so, each man stood at attention as the General approached.
General Scott, who had arrived to order the Regiment to Churubsco for an even more difficult battle, became so choked with emotion over the valor of these men, that he removed his hat, bowed low, and proclaimed: “Brave Rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”
The cache is a painted Altiods can. This cache is a log book only.
Brave Rifles Micro Cache is located on an American-held airbase. You will have to pass through a military check point to enter the installation.
Like all Iraqi caches, the intent is to keep caching alive during our deployment. Once the Regiment goes home (the sooner, the better), this cache will be tranferred to another deployed geocacher, or archived as a symbol of our success in Iraq.
Brave Rifles!
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