The last American cavalry charge, and the first Taliban WiFi assault -- where is it?

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Reacting
with alacrity to Monday night's bo-ring
debate, my friend Tim
Noah had the gumption to find the
last American who led a cavalry charge. It was Lt. Edwin P. Ramsey,
in January 1942 in the Philippines. (Unless you wanna count 5th SF
Group riding with the Northern Alliance in northern Afghanistan in 2001, but
that was more indirect approach, not conventional U.S. forces.)

Horse
cavalrymen must have been pretty tough hombres. Lt. Price is now 95 years old,
and hanging out in Los Angeles -- not unlike Wyatt Earp did a century ago, I
guess. When the Japanese prevailed (temporarily) in the Philippines, Ramsey
went underground and became a guerrilla leader.

Two
possibly related questions: How many American WiFi signals can you pick up from
the middle of Bagram Air Base? (A: 54.) How
many Taliban WiFi signals can you pick up? (A: Zero.)

Finally,
a little-known bayonet fact:
O.P. Smith, one of our greatest generals and one of our most under-rated, once
did a study of the use of the bayonet in World War I and concluded it was
over-rated. He even interviewed surgeons about the wounds that they saw and
concluded that the bayonet was actually used very little. I write a little
about this in my new
book, which has a chapter on him. Another little-known fact:
Smith, though a Marine, studied under George C. Marshall at Fort Benning.