Mountain Mule Packers specialize in packing mules, crew-served weapons, and extreme terrain pack animal supply trains. Mules have played a vital role in transporting military supplies and equipment in combat for centuries.
Our instructors and packers are experienced in training elite military units, ensuring they meet mission‑specific needs for upcoming operations. Military units can receive instruction in load-out configuration of mission-specific equipment.
Military UNIT Training Capabilities Statement
Handling, haltering, saddling, and loading pack animals for supply-line operations
Mobile operations
Load-out configurations of mission-specific equipment such as:
Communications Loads
Crew-Served Weapons
Ammunition
Supply Line Packing
Casualty Vertical Lift Scenarios
Equipment Lifts
Water Crossings
Articles
Mar. 28, 2025: DVIDS – U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 8, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, Animal Handler and Packers course, Survivalist Skills
Mar. 26, 2025: DVIDS – U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jose Dedios, a combat engineer with Combat Logistics Battalion 8, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, and California native, leads a mule though austere terrain during an Animal Handler and Packers course
Mar. 26, 2025: DVIDS – U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tyler Severns, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 8, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, and a Washington native, secures a tension line during an Animal Handler and Packers course, Introduction to Animal Handling
Nov. 16, 2023: DVIDS – 2nd Marine Logistics Group Participates in a Mule Packing Course
January 30, 2013, The Fayetteville Observer – Soldiers find new use for the old art of mule packing by Cindy Burnham
January 2009, Warefare History Network, Army Mules: The Beast of Burden in War by Christoper Miskimon
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