When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman’s war. However, from the time the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment arrived in the region, the Blackhorse troopers demonstrated the fallacy of this assumption.
Over the course of the 11th Cavalry’s five-and-a-half years in South Vietnam and Cambodia, more than 25,000 young men served in the Blackhorse Regiment.
