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Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:54 am**

The "New Yorker" ,Feb. 15,2010 , has an interesting article ,Riding High , about the current training of mountain troops to use pack mules at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center at Pickle Meadows at the eastern base of Sonora pass.

Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:55 pm**

Dingus Milktoast wrote:A mule is a lot easier to maintain than a Hummer, particularly in places where there are no roads!

DMT

True that. I expect that there is no chance of getting a hummer to about half of Afghanistan.