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SAN ANTONIO - Lt. Gen. Perry Wiggins administers the oath of enlistment on horseback to 50 recruits out of the San Antonio area Feb. 14 in front of the crowd gathered for the 65th annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo on one of the Military Appreciation Nights. The ceremony is a rare sight as the oath of enlistment is typically only administered on horseback in cavalry units. Wiggins' horse, a 13-year-old Percheron draft horse named Copeland, is one of 13 horses in the Fort Sam Houston Caisson Section and was formally named after the third Sergeant Major of the Army -- retired Sgt. Maj. of the Army Silas L. Copeland. Wiggins is the commanding general for U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) and senior commander for Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis.

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Lee Ezzell, Army North PAO)
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