Modern day knights.

[papabear]

I don't know if this has already been added to the galleries or not.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030402/capt.1049257496.war_critters_wx102.jpg

Caption reads:
Air Force Special Tactics Operator Master Sgt. Bart Decker travels by horseback in Afghanistan (news - web sites) in this Nov. 21, 2001 file photo. Decker, 39, of McHenry, Ill., spent much of the next 12 days in a wooden saddle as the juxtaposition of modern and ancient warfare continued with U.S. Air Force jets bombing Taliban and Al-Queda forces and Northern Alliance troops mounting cavalry charges. Military forces deployed in the war against Iraq (news - web sites) have called up dolphins, dogs, horses and even chickens to fight in the war against the Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) regime. (AP Photo/USAF, File)

[papabear]

Not a picture of a soldier on horseback, but another one I thought was eye-catching.

http://wwwi.*******.com/images/2003-04-01T174907Z_01_LON12D_RTRIDSP_2_IRAQ-BRITAIN.jpg



Corporal Dominic Conway of 40 Commando Royal Marines holds a grenade apparently left behind by fleeing Iraqi soldiers at an alleged interrogation center in Abu Al Khasib in southern Iraq, March 31, 2003. *******/POOL/Terry Richards-The Sun PICTURE TAKEN MARCH 31

[warchild1/27scout]

i wonder how dangerous and unstable those old grenades are.i'd be a little shy of picking up old explosives but those commandos are some of the best so he knows what he's doing.

[Royal]

It's not a good photo, but looks to me as though they aren't fused (normal practise for NATO - but unusual for Sov kit - they normally come ready fused)...