| 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 67 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027834 |
| OCR Text |
Show D TIN E TO p 12 20 9 We rolled in Numaniyah parked it in a schoolhou e. We ju t kind of r 11 d int Numaniyah, there were units ahead of us and they were fighting ahead of us you could hear the gunfire and you could hear that they were fighting, but we got put into the schoolhouse, secured the schoolhouse and then they said "Okay, we're setting up in the schoolhouse. It's going to be two to three days here." So we started making a defensive position, starting setting everything up, getting squared away, tying in fires, getting everything going. We were there for maybe two hours. And they said, "All right. We're moving again." Okay, roger that. We pack all our shit back up, get back on the trucks. One thing that we did do while we were at that schoolhouse is somebody went out and got a bunch of sodas from one of the Iraqi kids, they were selling sodas. So the whole platoon had soda pop. I remember getting yelled at for that by my master sergeant, Cross: "That's the dumbest thing. You don't know what in those sodas. Rahhhhhhh .. . " Fuck. Whatever. Nobody died. Let's go. So we packed the trucks back up and out we go. We go cruising up and a bridge going across one of the rivers-it must have been the Tigress or the Euphrates or one of the others in Numaniyah-they had a tank on top of it that had frickin gotten shot up and there were guys up on top trying to secure this tank. Then I think one of them had driven off or something like that. So that was kind of like the first wake-up call because we thought, up to that point, tanks were invincible. We punched across that bridge and secured an intersection just north of there. I really don't think anybody was past us at that point. I think we were the lead unit again. So we secured what 5th and ih were supposed to have secured in the battle plan, the road headed south to Kut. I don't know how we ended up getting there. I don't think we 67 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc839h/1027834 |
