The situation was certainly nothing new to the "Dragoons." As the oldest, continuously serving regiment in the United States Army, the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment rushed to the scene of impending action as they had been doing for over a century and a half, from the primitive Everglades of 19th Century Florida, to the deadly fields of the American Civil War, to the tank- killing pace with Patton driving across France. America called-they went, this time to the ancient sands of Saudi Arabia.