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 E TON B R 21 2009 colonels come talk to me afterward which I thought meant they took it w 11 b cau th y were asking pointed questions about what I was talking about trying to clarify. I think I really got my point across, but there was some fucked up shit that was wrong. The actual way we were transported and stuff, I had thirteen Marines you'd think that would be an easy transport from one coast to the other. No. That was a cluster fuck. We ended up Marines and gear everywhere. All piss poor planning on the staff part and that was very frustrating to me because if I was able to plan my own transports and logistics-I did it in Georgia; I'd done it before and I know how to do it, so it was very frustrating to me to let somebody else fuck it up. JCW: Was this your command that was screwing it up? DS: It was the staff. I can't remember what the fuck they were called. It was the [unclear WAV 4 -6:55] staff that was fucking it up, pretty much. They were the ones that were in charge of all the teams, all the [unclear WAV 4-7:01] PIT? teams, the BIT teams, the MIT teams], all that. But they were okay, I guess. They kind of pissed me off a lot, but that's life as a gooney. I should rewind. I did get promoted to gunnery sergeant before this time. I didn't want to do a typical promotion in front of the command, not because I didn't want the command to promote me, but I wanted to make it special. This is the rank that I wanted my entire career. I didn't want to get to first sergeant, I didn't really care about making first sergeant, I didn't really care about making sergeant major. I wanted to be a gunny. That was the coolest rank to me because you've always been ... a gunny is still part of the infantry, still down in the grunts, but yet he's kind of the old gunny and that's what I wanted to be. So I wanted to make it special. I had a kick-ass party here at the house. My 17