{"id":102904,"date":"2020-07-29T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102904"},"modified":"2020-07-29T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T21:59:44","slug":"space-force-gets-space-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102904","title":{"rendered":"Space Force gets Space Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/countryrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Spacy-1-480x270.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Space Force&#8217;s Space Horse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did you think the newest branch of the US military would be all rockets and jet packs? Of course you did, we all did. Who&#8217;da thunk that airmen (spacemen?) would be riding on horseback as part of our space operations?<\/p>\n<p>The USSF just added Ghost (pictured) to their stable of stable steeds. He&#8217;s a five year old Mustang that came to the military by way of the Bureau of Land Management. He&#8217;s currently being broken and trained.<\/p>\n<p>This program has been around for a while. The horses are used to patrol the vast, hard to reach areas of the sprawling Vandenberg AFB, home of the 30th Space Wing (now a USSF asset). It seems as if the roughly half-dozen or so security forces members assigned to conservation officer duties employ the horses to get them around where vehicles can&#8217;t reach. I imagine they also appreciate the ability to approach potential poachers quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Old Guard at Arlington and some honor guard units, this is probably the last (or maybe only) operational mounted unit on active duty.<\/p>\n<p>Full article (and some video) here; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2020\/07\/27\/saddle-up-for-a-ride-through-the-cosmos-partner-space-force-has-horses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you think the newest branch of the US military would be all rockets and jet &hellip; <a title=\"Space Force gets Space Horse\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102904\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Force gets Space Horse<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none","category-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102906,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102904\/revisions\/102906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}