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Army Medical Department Profilesthem into the truck. One of the mules wiped his handler off on the barn door,and took off running. Well, this farmer had an open field between his homeand the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and there were 18-wheelers going up anddown that turnpike in both directions almost bumper to bumper. They traveledduring the night. There was a tremendous number of them, and this muleheaded right for the turnpike.Sergeant Everett Horne and I took off on foot after the mule. He went one wayand I went around the other, and we tried to get ahead of it. He had theforesight to pick up a big flashlight, and when we got near the mule he put theflashlight in its eyes, and it stopped dead because it couldn’t see where it wasgoing. We ran up and got the halter. We could both see the headlines—U.S.Army mule involved in five 18-wheeler crash on Pennsylvania Turnpike.We got back and got on our way. We took them to Chicago, they performed inSoldier’s Field. We took them to Philadelphia, they performed at the Army-Navy games. We took them to JFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. It had justopened, and was just months old, and we took them there by train. Then weunloaded them into some trucks and trucked them over near the stadium. Wefinally found a warehouse building that had a loading dock with an inclineramp on one end.We off-loaded them onto the ramp, led them onto the loading dock, and thenled them down and off the ramp. We led them about three blocks to thestadium, and they performed. During the last quarter, we decided that to beatthe rush of traffic, we had better leave. At the start of the last quarter, westarted to leave, and Sergeant Everett Horne said—he had told me this earlierduring the game—“Instead of leading them all the way back and taking all thattime, I’ll have the trucks come over here.” There was a very steep incline at theback of the stadium, and he said, “We can just lower the tailgate and it willmake a level ramp and we can lead them down that hill right into the trucks,and we’ll save a lot of time.” It sounded great, so I said, “Let’s do it.”36
Frank Allen RamseyHe had the trucks come over, and they backed up to this hill, beautiful greengrass hill. We led the mules around to the top of it and back and forth a fewtimes. We started down the hill and everything went fine until they got about afourth of the way down the hill. The mules set their feet, and the wholehillside came down. It had about 4 x 6-foot pieces of sod pegged down withlittle wooden pegs, and they had wet the whole hillside and then put down allthis grass. They pegged it down and then wet it again. So these squares of sodwere setting on top of a muddy hillside, and when the mules set their feet, allthese squares of sod stacked up like a deck of cards and went right into theback of our truck. And there were these mules, and there we were. I said,“Sergeant Horne, take care of this,” and I left.About that time, a unit of the cadets came by. Sergeant Horne went up to thecommander and took over the unit, and had these cadets go over there. Aboutfour or five of them would grab one of these pieces of sod, and they wouldslide it back up the hill. We told the truck driver to go on back to thewarehouse, and the mule handlers led the mules back to the warehouse, andthese cadets re-sodded the hillside, and we left there.The Military Academy was an interesting assignment. Taking care of themules in itself was an interesting assignment, and getting into not only takingcare of them, but having to escort them to all events. The superintendentrequired that the veterinarian go on all these field trips with them, so there wewere. It was interesting.We refurbished our barn, and built a beautiful tack room up in one of thesupply rooms upstairs. It had separate racks for each mule’s tack, and it wasreally an ornate area. When we finished all this, one of the colonels had touredit, and evidently passed on the word to General Westmoreland, because oneday the General’s aide called and said they would be there in 10 minutes. Heand the General came down and they went over our whole building. They likedwhat they saw. It was kind of impressive, because the changes that we madewere pretty good.37
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