| Title |
Dustin Sexton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, September 12, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-5 |
| Alternative Title |
Dustin Sexton, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Sexton, Dustin |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-09-12; 2009-11-21 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Kuwait; Iraq; Georgia |
| Subject |
Sexton, Dustin--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (xx pages) of an interview by John C. Worsencroft with Dustin Sexton on September 12, 2009. From tape number IA-5 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Dusty was born in Orlando, Florida, but moved around the United States a lot growing up. His dad was an Episcopal priest. Dusty enlisted in the Marine Corps and went to boot camp in 1991 at MCRD San Diego. He talks about boot camp, deployments, and life in the Marines. Dusty has served multiple deployments to Iraq in numerous leadership positions. The interview is largely a chronological narrative of his nearly 20 years in the Marine Corps. Dusty currently lives in Kamas, UT. where he is a firefighter with Park City Fire Department. He also runs a business, Sexton Off-Road, which builds custom off-road vehicles. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 142 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
142 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nc839h |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027909 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc839h |
| Title |
Page 50 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027817 |
| OCR Text |
Show DU TIN EXTON PT B R 12 2009 should have had on our seven tons that they didn't need that we need d that w hould have had. Our one gun truck had a Martin 19 with a bad searing. That was our frickin gun truck. That was it. We didn't have 50-cals we should have had and these [Pogs WAVl 1 -9:30] had it. So they pulled up along behind, I think it was behind second squad or third squad or whatever. This, I don't know, man, this group of family, they came out and I was probably the closest unit to them and I'm yelling, "Cease fire. Cease fire." And I just watched them all get frickin mowed down. I was just like, Jesus. That was shitty. I was pissed about that. Then, of course, there's this big frickin pick up in fire right after that from both our side and their side and all this fire and everybody's just kind of laying, just shooting at each other. Then all of a sudden, the fire increased immensely, but it was different rounds; it wasn't AK47s anymore. It was frickin US weapons and I knew it was US weapons. And then you see these fucking idiots come driving through the town in the fucking recon vehicles. The dipshits that were told to go out on the flank, they decided they needed to drive through the town. I was able to get my all guys all to cease fire and everybody on our side to cease fire. Those guys don't realize how fucking close they were to getting blown the hell away, by a whole battalion's worth of frickin weapons. They think they're frickin heroes, just come ripping through the town like that after the battle's over. So we pulled back after that, which just ... so we pulled back, not even a hundred yards. We didn't even pull back to the telephone pole where the sewage trench was. That's where my truck was parked; it never moved. The rest of the company kind of moved around my truck and set up a 360, or a semblance of a 360 and it got. .. oh, that's 50 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc839h/1027817 |
