New: Mountain Warfare Training Center teaches advanced horsemanship

MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. - The MWTC near Bridgeport, Calif., has begun teaching an advanced horsemanship training course in order to teach Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel the necessary skills to enable them to ride horses, load pack animals, and maintain animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments.

“We’re taking this course so that we can integrate unconventional warfare into the Marine SOF horsemanship program. As vets, we can help educate the Marines and other SOF on these matters,” said a SOF veterinarian assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC). “It’s a very unique course because it combines the conventional warfare tactics of the Marine Corps with the unconventional warfare used by SOF.”
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