The U.S. Army will be putting most of its ceremonial horses up for adoption as part of its overall warfighting realignment, the service announced on Tuesday.  The changes will save an estimated $2 million a year,

The U.S. Army is retiring a majority of its ceremonial horse programs. The service branch announced in a press release that they will be "streamlining its Military Working Equid program to align more resources with warfighting capability and readiness.

Meanwhile, army bases in California, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas will sunset their MWE programs. European colonial settlers relied on horses for centuries, but official US cavalry forces are traceable all the way back to the Revolutionary War.