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Re: army training for riding



I wonder if they brought the mules back or if they just abandoned them there?
----- Original Message -----
From: Truman Prevatt
To: Rides 2 Far
Cc: pickeringdovie@775.net ; ridecamp@endurance.net
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: RC: army training for riding

The CIA bought mules to send to Afghanistan to support moving supplies
through the rough mountains back when the Russians were there.

Truman

Rides 2 Far wrote:

> This got me thinking.  Back when the Russians invaded Afghanistan a
> friend of mine was approached at an auction in Tennessee about selling
> her mule.  Seems he'd been hired by the U.S. government to buy mules to
> send to the resistance to use in that conflict.  This week I talked to
> another endurance rider on-line whose husband has just been called up to
> go to Ubeckistan...and I just got to thinking.  What if our government
> put out a call for horses that could be used?  Can you imagine?
>
> I


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