https://theequinest.com/anadolu-pony Horse breeds and equine information Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://theequinest.com/anadolu-pony/comment-page-1#comment-27701 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:11:46 +0000 http://www.theequinest.com/?p=13192#comment-27701 i was in the US Army in Turkey in 1957-1958, and at that time the Turkish Army was not yet extensively motorized. I saw entire battalions of Turkish Army infantry with a hundred or more of these horses to each battalion, used to carry weapons, ammo, food, water, you name it. I saw many carrying a Browning .50 caliber machine gun and tripod mount, a total of about 250 pounds. These animals were incredibly strong and sure-footed. The soldiers carried a little grain for the horses but no hay. They were expected to graze in those barren mountains. (Not the soldiers, dummy, just the horses). They had Arabs in their stables for officers to ride for fun, but they were not used in the field. They also had 75 millimeter pack howitzers broken down between two horses, a combined weight around 500-600 pounds. I wish I could say they were beautiful, but they were just plain ugly, but maybe it was just because they were in the field. (Now you have it, both the soldiers and the horses!)

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