Interview with Maria Pyatt

Interview with Maria Pyatt

Autobiography

Basic training (Military education)

Iraq War, 2003-2011

Pyatt , Maria

Pyatt , Maria -- Childhood and youth

Veterans

Women veterans -- North Carolina, Western -- Interviews

Maria Pyatt is interviewed by Chyan Gallardo on June 2, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pyatt, a veteran of the Iraq War, discusses her experiences in basic training, the Third Calvary Brave Rifles division, and the Order of the Spur. She relates stories of her job as a water purification specialist, being a woman in the military, and her time served in Germany. She speaks about her time in the National Guard, and getting activated after the September 11 attacks. She talks about her deployment process to Iraq and experiences that led up to her injury from an IED in Baghdad.

Pyatt, Maria

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2016-06-02;

Gallardo, Chyan

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

personal narratives

eng

Sound

35751

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35751

2017-06-10

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Jackson County (N.C.)

00:51:13 (sound recording)(duration)

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina