Re: RC: army training for riding

[Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

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