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Now that they are officially U.S. Army Soldiers, it's time to start their field training exercises! Cavalry Scouts are taking on their first Field Training Exercise of Advanced Individual Training, #AIT, as they complete their transformation from civilian into US Army Soldiers! Cavalry Scouts attend One Station Unit Training, or #OSUT, at US Army Fort Benning where their Basic Combat Training, #BCT, and Advanced Individual Training, #AIT, are combined and they become members of the Combat Arms C

The time has come - the grand finale! After an incredibly hard working 22 weeks of training, the Army's newest Cavalry Scouts graduated from 19D One Station Unit Training and reunited with their Families and friends before moving on to their follow on assignment. The 194th Armored Brigade transforms civilians into trained and fit Soldiers who enable our Army to fight and win our nation's wars. One Military Occupational Specialty they train is 19D, or Cavalry Scout: the eyes and ears of the U.S.

On September 28, 1874, Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie led U.S. Army cavalry down a narrow trail into Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle, attacking a massive encampment where Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa families had gathered for winter. The troops routed the camp, capturing nearly 2,000 horses while families fled up the canyon walls with only what they could carry. Mackenzie ordered the systematic destruction of all lodges, winter supplies, and food stores, then slaughtered the captu