Re: army training for riding

["Beth Gunn" <happyhoofprints@hotmail.com>]

I think it would be interesting for the people in so much hardship to be
able to acquire horses from outlying regions for training and breeding for
this mission.  Their horses should be smaller, compact, rugged and
accustomed to living on next to nothing.  And what about camels, too?  Would
be good to see them "build up" their economy and self relience (sp?) as a
result of all this.
Angie, I couldn't bear to think of any of our equine best friends over
their.
Beth Gunn
----- Original Message -----
From: Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>
To: <pickeringdovie@775.net>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: RC: army training for riding


> > But I think our sport started as training
> > for> horses used in war.  DP
>
> Just read my new Newsweek.  It stated this quote from when the Norther
> Alliance took Mazar-e Sharif: "We have the airport, we have Mazar, we
> have everything" exulted Gen. Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord who
> commands the Northern Alliance's forces in the northwest and who arrived
> on horseback.
>
> It also mentioned that our C-130's are dropping "fodder" for the horses &
> donkeys used by our special forces.
>
> 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 once read a story about a Civil War battle where a Southern officer had
> a new Thoroughbred...when they began their charge the TB bolted and
> outran all his troops taking him right at the Union army all by himself
> no matter how hard he tried to get the horse in control...the union
> soldiers saw him coming at them all by himself and thought it was Jeb
> Stuart and they paniced and ran.  I'm afraid that if I was patriot enough
> to donate Kaboot that's the sort of thing he'd do to a member of our
> special forces...but just to torment myself I keep thinking...if *she* is
> willing to give up her husband for the cause...would I be willing to give
> up my endurance horse?
>
> I think I'll take my mind off of it by getting out this GPS Josie won and
> trying to figure it out. >g<
>
> Angie
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