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And when they started the band there wasn't enough people in the high school and so when you got in the fifth grade you were in the high school band, so I was in the high school band from the fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, so I was in the high school band for eight years. And I was in the high school band from the fourth grade on. All you could smell was leather and I guess that's what attracted me to chaps later, and we had chaps for horses. I was in charge of the tack room, and loved it because it smelled like leather when you walked in. And I did that at the county fair and different horse shows and things like that, and worked at a horse barn. You do figure eights around the barrels, and then you go around the last ones, and you come back, and they time you how fast you are. Rosie Coates: He was a quarter horse, and you go, there's three barrels in the lot, you take off at the corner, and then they run, and they time you to how you go around. I got a horse later, Little Jo, and showed him. I was gone every day after kindergarten, ever day after school, until probably I turned 16 when I started driving, and I started driving and that stopped me from riding. I always tell people this day in time within an hour they'd have the rescue squad out looking for a six-year-old on a pony, but they didn't even think anything about it. We'd be all over the mountains, riding in the mountains, riding trigger, and Jojo running along with me. I mean, at six-years-old on Saturday morning I'd get on Trigger, and pack me a little backpack with my boxer Jojo and we'd go. His name was Trigger, and I rode him all over the mountains.
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so daddy got me a pony he thought to keep me company and keep me doing something else on my own, so at six after they broke the pony. Keywords: Fort Polk, LA Humans as Property Injury Military orders US Army 00:06:59 - Rosie's Childhood and Musical Abilities Rosie explains that she was injured and released into the VA system since she was "non-deployable," a back injury that was the result of "a stupid mistake." She was ordered to move something and as the "property" of the government, she felt she had to move the object, which resulted in her long-term injury. Armed Forces, which made Rosie's family happy. She and her brothers all served in the U.S. Segment Synopsis: Rosie enlists in the U.S. Rosie Coates:Ěnd I had to have surgery so that stopped any process of me possibly becoming an officer, and they ended up medically boarding me out, because I was non-deployable, after they operate on you, you're not deployable anymore, so that means you can't go out of country, so they don't want you anymore, so they medically board you out and put you in the VA system. I got a ruptured disc out in the field lifting generators, which we weren't supposed to do but we were ordered to do. I ended up getting hurt down there the first two months I was down there. I was second in my whole platoon on all the physical tests, on all the firing your M-16 test, and I was slated to go directly to officer candidate school and they sent me to Fort Polk Louisiana instead. And they called me grandma but I was an assistant platoon guide. I maxed out everything in basic training.
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Tina M White: Did you enjoy your time in the service? Rosie Coates: So that's I guess one of the reasons I did it, and fulfilled one of her wishes whether I realize it or not. Rosie Coates: It was a career change because I had just become stagnant, and I felt like I was at my wits end, and I felt like it was an opportunity to become an officer for one thing, and both my brothers, one had served in the Navy, one had served in the Army, had both served, and I just wanted to be able to say that all three of us had served in the Army, I mean served in the Armed Forces, and at my momma's 50 year high school reunion they ask everybody what was they were proudest of in their life, and she said, she wrote, I got the copy of it, it said she was "Most proud that all three of her children had served their country." Tina M White: Why did you go into the Army? Partial Transcript: Rosie Coates: We're talking '79 to '82.