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Marines with Marine Corps Special Operations Command move into position on roof top to prepare for a Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction exercise on a CH-53E aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Sept. 13, 2013. This training has helped the MARSOC MPC program in developing what will become the standard operating procedures. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony Carter/Released) - Marines with Marine Corps Special Operations Command move into position on roof top to prepare for a Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction exercise on a CH-53E aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Sept. 13, 2013. This training has helped the MARSOC MPC program in developing what will become the standard operating procedures. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony Carter/Released)

(Pictured left to right) Major Gen. Raymond Fox, commanding general, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Brig. Gen. John Love, deputy commanding general, II MEF, and Maj. Gen. Mark Clark, commanding general, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, met at MARSOC Headquarters, Sept. 13, 2013. Clark hosted commanders from North Carolina to discuss special operations' integration in conventional forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samuel McKenzie/Released) - (Pictured left to right) Major Gen. Raymond Fox, commanding general, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Brig. Gen. John Love, deputy commanding general, II MEF, and Maj. Gen. Mark Clark, commanding general, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, met at MARSOC Headquarters, Sept. 13, 2013. Clark hosted commanders from North Carolina to discuss special operations' integration in conventional forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samuel McKenzie/Released)

The MWTC near Bridgeport, Calif., has begun teaching an advanced horsemanship training course in order to teach Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel the necessary skills to enable them to ride horses and move through terreain that can't be navigated by motor vehicles. Conditioned horses are able to travel more than 30 miles per day and can gallop at up to 40-miles per hour for short periods of time. - The MWTC near Bridgeport, Calif., has begun teaching an advanced horsemanship training course in order to teach Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel the necessary skills to enable them to ride horses and move through terreain that can't be navigated by motor vehicles. Conditioned horses are able to travel more than 30 miles per day and can gallop at up to 40-miles per hour for short periods of time.