Dustin Sexton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, September 12, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-5

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D TI EXTO p B R 12 2009 D : Yes. That was one thing that really hurt the moral wa th chow hall ituati n. Especially for me, because chow hall closed at 16:30 and a normal person doe n teat at 4:30 in the afternoon, so you'd always have to go out for dinner and that spent a lot of money. Good camaraderie, but you spend a lot of money when you do that. That's how we ended up always hanging out drinking coffee. JCW: All in all, though, do you think the unit learned a lot from the experience of being down in California for that long. DS: I think they learned a lot. A lot of our guys were younger and didn't really have a lot of experience and I think there was a lot of experience gained. I think we tightened up as a unit. Do I think you need a year to do that? No. Do I think there was a lot of wasted time? Yes. But I also think there was a lot of really good training involved. The first six months, not so much, because the QRF mission was kind of taking precedence, we were doing some good training. We did less than lethal and a lot of non-lethal classes and we got OC sprayed and that was tortuous and painful. After the six months was up, though, I think that's about when the QRF mission kind of went away. I think it was still there, but we really didn't, it wasn't like we were on twenty-four hours notice or I don't remember what the notice ended up being, but it seemed like we just kind of let that slide and stayed on active duty. We went to Bridgeport and that was awesome training. That was really, really good training up there. Had a really good package up there in the unit we worked with. We met the Amtracker unit; we trained with those guys. We had a unit that got attached to us-I don't remember any other names-but they were a reserve Amtracker unit. They 21