There’s a book called “Sleeping with Custer and the Seventh Cavalry” about the role of,3rd Squadron, 7th Cav, 3rd ID.Reminds me I need to finish Thunder Run, about a 3rd ID armor assault on Baghdad, it's a really good book.
The author was an embedded reporter with 3-7, who was 30-60 miles ahead of the assault force. Cav Squadrons try to bypass troop concentrations and leave them for the Armor/Infantry teams to destroy.
“Combat operations for Operation Iraqi Freedom began on 20 March 2003 when the squadron crossed into Iraq as the lead element of the 3rd Infantry Division. The Squadron attacked to Baghdad fighting both the Republican Guard and the Sadam Fedayeen. It was the longest cavalry charge in the history of the world and it ended in the capture of Baghdad.
....By the time the Squadron had redeployed it had killed 2,200 Iraqi personnel, 64 tanks, 41 armored vehicles, numerous active air defense systems, as well as trucks and civilian vehicles used as suicide bombers.
One of the Plt Ldrs in A Troop (my old unit) was from MA and I sent him and the platoon care packages weekly for several months.