Originally Posted by V_RocKs

We in fact use less bayonets. We have a much smaller army than we did in the year Romney mentioned and therefor have less bayonets then we did back then. In times of war we purchase more bayonets to replace the ones lost when a soldier is killed and/or positions are overtaken.

Back in Romney's suggested year we had a cavalry of about 10,000 to 12,000 men. Today that division only has a small number of horses. If you ever watched any Vietnam movies you would understand what happened to our cavalry. They moved into helicopters. In the movie We Were Soldiers Mel Gibson's character gives the men in his unit a speech about it. The speech was taken from the memory of those who were there.