{"id":52048,"date":"2014-06-23T09:42:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52048"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:42:21","slug":"hoofed-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52048","title":{"rendered":"Hoofed warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=52050\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horsemanship-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Horsemanship\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horsemanship-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horsemanship-500x290.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horsemanship.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/06\/22\/horses-marines-afghanistan\/10744395\/\">USAToday<\/a> reports that at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, California, Marines are bringing back horsemanship skills and teaching Army Special Forces to ride, care for and select horses;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At this remote training area high in the Sierra, the U.S. Marine Corps is reviving the horsemanship skills that were once a key part of the nation&#8217;s armed forces but were cast aside when tanks and armored vehicles replaced them. The need to bring these skills back was driven home in Afghanistan in 2001, when the first Special Forces soldiers to arrive found themselves fighting on horseback alongside tribesmen in rugged terrain without roads. Many had never ridden a horse before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to reinvent anything,&#8221; said Marine Capt. Seth Miller, the officer in charge of formal schools at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. &#8220;These are skills that were lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marine instructors are teaching the students, most of them Army Special Forces soldiers, how to control horses, care for them and load packs. The students are taught how to calculate routes and distances for rides and what to look for when purchasing horses from locals. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, California, Marines are &hellip; <a title=\"Hoofed warriors\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52048\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoofed warriors<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52048","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}