Our brigade hostes a Spouse Spur Ride today and I learned lots of new things. Here are my biggest lessons learned ... The tradition of having to “earn your spurs” reaches back to the beginning of the Cavalry when green troopers arrived to their new cavalry units and were required to prove their proficiency and skills before they could earn the right to wear spurs with their uniform. The purpose of a Spouse Spur Ride is to build unit cohesion and learn more about what our Soldier heroes do each day while deployed ... and 'earn our spurs' as Cavalry spouses! ACU pants are not flattering on any female form. The Field Artillery gun ... the Paladin! Hooah! Our battalion's CSM's wife and me in a Bradley. The Soldiers stationed at this vehicle failed to convince me that this was cooler than a Paladin, but they did their best. My observation was that the biggest difference I saw (other than the obvious size of the gun) was all the cushions on the seats in back. ...