ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY — At 6:30 a.m., the scrape of manure shovels and the shuffling of horse hooves echoed through the red-brick stable at Ft. Myer. Soldiers from the caisson detachment ...

Members of the U.S. Army Caisson detachment prepare for former president Jimmy Carter to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol with a test run on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.

FILE – A U.S. Army Caisson team carries the remains of Army Pfc. Tramaine J. Billingsley during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Nov. 2, 2010.

After a two-year hiatus, horse-drawn caissons will once again be an option at Arlington National Cemetery. The pause came after two horses were euthanized due to poor living conditions and feed.

The caisson detachment at Fort Myer, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, assumed duty to escort funerals in 1948. It followed the tradition of using a caisson, three, two-horse ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army will soon begin limited use of horse-drawn caissons for funerals at Arlington National Cemetery, phasing in the long-held tradition after nearly two years of work to ...