| yes your right again. Sgt. York was the caparsioned horse for Regan. His barn name (what the soliders call him) is Yorkie. He is a standardbred, which is the type of horse used in trotting and pacing races. His offical registered name was All Aboard Jewels. The only way to really know that is to have seen the story done on him on animal planet, or to actually be an officer in the cassion platoon. I don't figure we have any of those. The cassion soldiers stay busy 24/7. I got that from Animal Planet. Though Sgt. York is the most experience cap. horse, he supposedly has some bad habits which the cap. walkers (the soldier who leads the horse) don't like. So now the units primary cap. horse is Omar. He actually started missions the week after the Regan funeral, and many of the soldiers felt he probably would have done a better job than Yorkie with the Regan funeral. The unit had just gotten him, and hadn't had time to do spook testing and primary training with him. If he would gotten his mission certification a little sooner they would have used Omar, instead of Yorkie. Good Job Missler, you know your stuff. I bet you spent a lot of time watching the coverage of the Regan funeral, probably a lot more than I did. Keep up the good work.
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