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(dramatic symphonic music)

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^- The wonderful thing about Sergeant Reckless,

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^for those of you that might not know the story,

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she was such a heroic horse.

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She was just a little pony.

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She was only 13 hands high.

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But what she did in the one battle for Outpost Vegas

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was beyond anything a horse normally would do.

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Horses usually run away from chaos and everything.

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But she ran towards it, because her men needed her.

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And in this one battle, she made 51 trips up to the guns,

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carried 386 rounds of recoilless rifle ammunition

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on her back, and those rounds weigh 24 pounds a piece.

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She would carry eight of those at a time.

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By the end of the battle,

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she had carried over 9,000 pounds on her back in one day.

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^- I was a ranch kid, you know, raised with horses and mules.

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And I never expected to see a horse

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in the middle of that chaos of Korea,

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'cause all of the civilians

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had been moved south toward Seoul,

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and the 38th parallel had been established.

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- It was just stunning what she did.

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She was wounded twice.

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She got hit with shrapnel in her forehead

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and in her left flank.

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But it didn't stop her.

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She just kept going, steady to the cause.

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^And she even carried wounded off the battlefield.