Fort Bliss Monitor

Visiting troopers horse around at Bliss stables

Sgt. Paula Taylor

Sgt. 1st Class Rip Bussell, platoon sergeant and demonstration rider for the 1st Cav. Div. Horse Det. at Fort Hood, leads some of the horses to an exercise pen at the High Desert Riding Club stable.

Sgt. Paula Taylor
4th BCT, 1st Cav. Div.

Troopers from the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Detachment stopped to rest and exercise their animals here Wednesday on their way back from the 117th Tournament of Roses parade held in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 2.
Once they arrived at the High Desert Riding Club stable here, protocol required the team to inspect the stalls to ensure there were no sharp or protruding objects or anything that would be unsafe for the horses, said Spc. Cody Fordemwalt, demonstration rider and boot-maker for the detachment.

The horses, wagon mules and their dog, Pvt. Buddy, were unloaded from their trailers, fed, watered and exercised before the troopers retreated to their hotel rooms for the evening.

This was the sixth time the detachment has participated in the Tournament of Roses parade within the past eight years.

“In a good year, we do about 250 shows,” said Cpl. Dominick Anderson, veterinary technician for the detachment.



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	January 12, 2006

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