| 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 128 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027895 |
| OCR Text |
Show DU TI E TON R 21 2009 responsible for the interior of the city. But they re not a military fi rce and w m rph d them into something else. The Iraqi police were the ones that were really fi ar d by th citizens because of Saddam. Then when the Americans came in we disbanded that whol thing and then tried to recreate the police force without getting the right people in charge so it was this big conglomerate of cluster. Basically there was this huge recruiting drive, but they didn't want to take any Ba'athists, so then they get all these people that are stuck in the country that didn't have enough money to leave or enough sense to leave, but then they didn't want to be without work, so they came to work. Ninety-five percent illiterate rate; ninety-five percent don't have a clue what they're supposed to be doing out there. Five percent do. Out of that five percent, 2.5 percent were ex-military, colonels, whatnot. A lot of the Sherta were ex-military, but the militaries were never educated. They didn't have an NCO corps; they don't understand what a NCO corps is. It was the officer and then the Sherta. That was something we got away from. We got them to teach smarter individuals more skills and then let them be in charge. So sergeants and that kind of stuff actually had responsibilities as sergeants. But it was kind of this hodge-podge rampant bullshit that you had to deal with all the time. Like everybody that was a colonel was originally a lieutenant colonel or a captain or some other bullshit. It was all, just kind of, you had to let your standards slide, if you will, because you could never hold them to the same standards you were held to, but sometimes you were just like, well, they did what I asked, sort of. And it's a leadership thing. Same thing you do with a PFC. You hold them to a standard, but at some point you have to realize that he cannot be you. He can't be you. He's got to be himself. You're just trying to teach him to be the best that he can for himself. 34 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc839h/1027895 |
