| 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 |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| 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 79 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027846 |
| OCR Text |
Show D TI TO B R 12 20 o we go back and I briefed all the squad leaders. Okay h r the plan. nd during the middle of this there's some, I don't know some commotion about a trail r full of ammo that's on fire. Do you remember? JCW: No. DS: I don't remember this really, but Master Sergeant Cross and First Sergeant Lopez are frickin doing a two-man assault on this supposed enemy position of a trailer out in a field. I remember this all going on in the background, but I don't really remember what was going on (laughs). And I remember Major K yelling at them about it because they're idiots. So they started this trailer on fire. So we're sitting there watching this whole trailer incident go down as I'm talking to the squad leaders, laying out the battle plan. I'm like, "Okay, I'll be in the lead truck with 1st squad. Second squad you'll follow and then 3rd squad in the tail," I think. "We're going to move to this football field and we need to secure this football field. We'll be moving in as a company, but we'll lead in, we're going to take this into the field and then secure it. Then we'll be moving out on foot patrol." I laid out the plan, gave them the good five-paragraph order as best I could as a frag-o. We went and started doing our pre-combat checks and everybody checked out everything. We issued out extra AT4s, we issued out everything we were going to need. I issued, I put the SMAW section, one SMAW section with Wright, one SMAW section with Spencer and that was Reeves and Strow went with Wright. Then Sergeant Hardy, the machine gun team leader, went with Sergeant Edwards. I think those were the extra weapons we had with us. Then we loaded up on AT4s and we loaded up in the trucks and we started moving. It was like zero-eight when we started rolling. 79 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc839h/1027846 |
