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 TIN ~ TO MB R 21 20 9 where we were out on the riverbanks and I was teaching IP surveillanc and d ing m stuff with them and I had them everywhere. We had isolated a smuggling group of smugglers out on this island because there were islands all throughout our river and isolated this group of smugglers and we called for air support to give us some night vision up in the air to find out which island they were on. I get this, You're surrounded, you're surrounded. We're engaging." I'm like, "Oh, no. Stop! These are IPs." After that we put big X's on top of their trucks to make sure because they thought we were going to get killed. But, I don't know, it was such a different world being out there with the Iraqis all the time and then going back to the FOB where everybody's isolated and doesn't have a clue what's going on outside the wire. It was funny to me, I guess. I didn't have anybody get hurt the whole time we were there. I think I butt hurt a bunch of people, but other than that ... JCW: How did your guys perform? It sounds to me like you had a lot of outside of the box ... DS: Yes, it was all outside the box. I thought we did excellent, as a team. There were a lot of individual problems in the team, but I never let that outside the team. That was always my realm. I probably should have been a little harsher than I was as far as doling out responsibilities and punishments, but I didn't feel, I don't know, my team kind of disappointed me quite a bit, but they were outside their element, too. I was asking too much of them because they weren't able to handle the job. The job that we were doing should have been done by senior officers in the Marine Corps and I'm expecting corporals and lance corporals to do the job and it was 37