Hagel Gets Gift Horse in Mongolia After Pledging Support
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was gifted a nine-year-old horse during a visit to Mongolia, where he pledged the U.S. would continue aiding the country’s military modernization.
Hagel, who named the horse Shamrock after his school mascot and handed him over to the care of a local herder, is the first Pentagon chief to visit Mongolia in nine years. He met in Ulaanbaatar with Defense Minister Bat-Erdene Dashdemberel and Prime Minister Altankhuyag Norov, and the two countries signed a statement pledging U.S. assistance for the land-locked nation’s efforts to upgrade its armed forces.