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June 21, 2012 | Leisure
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Staff Sgt. Douglas Landes takes a time out from dancing with daughters Julia, 8, and Emily, 7, during the 3rd Cav. Regt.’s Daddy Daughter Dance at Fort Hood June 14. 1st Lt. Joan Drammeh, 3rd Cav. Regt. Public Affairs
Staff Sgt. Adan Lopez holds his daughter Alina, 5, during the 3rd Cav. Regt.’s Daddy Daughter Dance June 14 at the Ohana Place on Fort Hood. 1st Lt. Joan Drammeh, 3rd Cav. Regt. Public Affairs
Dads and daughters await entry into Ohana Place at Fort Hood for the first-ever Daddy Daughter Dance for members of the 3rd Cav. Regt. June 14. 1st Lt. Joan Drammeh, 3rd Cav. Regt. Public Affairs
Army Service Uniforms and Stetsons mixed with princess dresses at 3rd Cavalry Regiment’s first Daddy Daughter Dance June 14 at Fort Hood’s Ohana Place.
The sold-out event, featuring cookie decorating and a spur necklace ceremony, welcomed 200 fathers and daughters for a night of dancing in their finest.
“We thought it would be a great event for us to do since our guys are home from deployment,” Missie O’Neal, the dance’s event planner, said. “It started out as a Sabre Squadron event, but we opened it to the entire regiment due to the great interest.”
The daughters seemed more than pleased to serve as their daddies’ dates.
“She wore the same tutu she wore to my welcome home ceremony, so it was a nice memory,” Sgt. Jacob Angvine, Muleskinner Squadron, said about his 2-year-old daughter, Italy.
The necklace ceremony was one of the highlights of the dance.
In the tradition of the cavalry spur ride and spouse’s spur ride, fathers presented their daughters with a spur necklace, thereby inducting them into the regiment and identifying each girl as the daughter of a cavalry trooper.
Another highlight was the dance itself.
“They loved dancing to the music and it was nice to spend special time with them,” Staff Sgt. Douglas Landes, Tiger Squadron, said about his daughters Julia, 8, and Emily, 7. Julia and Emily danced with their dad
all night to the music in matching white dresses.
The sold-out event, featuring cookie decorating and a spur necklace ceremony, welcomed 200 fathers and daughters for a night of dancing in their finest.
“We thought it would be a great event for us to do since our guys are home from deployment,” Missie O’Neal, the dance’s event planner, said. “It started out as a Sabre Squadron event, but we opened it to the entire regiment due to the great interest.”
The daughters seemed more than pleased to serve as their daddies’ dates.
“She wore the same tutu she wore to my welcome home ceremony, so it was a nice memory,” Sgt. Jacob Angvine, Muleskinner Squadron, said about his 2-year-old daughter, Italy.
The necklace ceremony was one of the highlights of the dance.
In the tradition of the cavalry spur ride and spouse’s spur ride, fathers presented their daughters with a spur necklace, thereby inducting them into the regiment and identifying each girl as the daughter of a cavalry trooper.
Another highlight was the dance itself.
“They loved dancing to the music and it was nice to spend special time with them,” Staff Sgt. Douglas Landes, Tiger Squadron, said about his daughters Julia, 8, and Emily, 7. Julia and Emily danced with their dad
all night to the music in matching white dresses.
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