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meet Lance corporal Olivia Vance . I am

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from Oklahoma . I am with third

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maintenance battalion E . M . C . And

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my job is a generator mechanic . She is

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also a well known ferrier and horse

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trainer . I've been around horses since

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day one . I started trimming horses

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hopes when I was 15 and I've been doing

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that ever since . Every weekend she

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travels across the island , visiting up

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to four locations and facilities in a

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day to trim hooves and train rescue

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horses . Horses don't ever just want to

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pick up their foot . So I think over

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time I just learned how to work with

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them really well and from there I

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picked up training little bits here and

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there . Some of the horses I work with

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are really scared of people , really

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scared of everything and some of them

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are aggressive and there's two very

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different situations . You just have to

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know how to handle it . Within her

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first year on island , she volunteered

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nearly 200 hours taking care of horses

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and ponies on Okinawa . Yeah , I think

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my favorite thing about working with

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horses as seeing progress , I love

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seeing like a bond be built and just

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see them get better