A horse-drawn caisson will carry Officer Michael Horan to Westover Church before his funeral service on Thursday. But, what is a caisson? Here’s what we know. According to the North Carolina ...

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The five soldiers and eight horses of the Army's Caisson Detachment halted, the U.S. Capitol on the hill, about a mile away. Wind scythed down Independence Avenue in northwest Washington under a ...

Eads plan was based on a similar technology used in Europe: that of using caissons. This demonstration shows the step-by-step process of constructing one of the piers and explains this amazing ...

At around 2 p.m. Monday, the caisson detachment -- a ceremonial unit responsible for transporting the remains of service members and veterans to their final resting places at Arlington National ...

The training accident occurred at about 2 p.m. between soldiers and horses of the Caisson Detachment of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard.” Three horses unseated their ...