| Title |
Steven Schiele, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, February 22, 2010: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-36 |
| Alternative Title |
Steven Schiele, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Schiele, Steven, 1956- |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2010-02-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Spain; United Arab Emirates; Italy; Kosovo; Crete, Greece |
| Subject |
Schiele, Steven, 1956- --Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Personal narratives, American; Aviation mechanics--Biography |
| Keywords |
Air National Guard; Aircraft maintenance |
| Description |
Transcript (39 pages) of an interview by John C. Worsencroft with Steven Schiele on February 22, 2010. From tape number IA-36 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Schiele (b. 1956) was born in Davenport, Iowa, and lived in Denver, Colorado, Cheyenne, Wyoming and Granger, Utah. Steven talks about his decision to enlist in the Air Force in high school, which was influenced by his brothers' service and seeing a Jimmy Stewart movie called Strategic Air Command when he was young. He discusses basic training where he became a squad leader. After basic training he went to Chanute Air Force Base where he became a general vehicle maintenance mechanic and then reported to Francis E. Warren for three and a half years. He describes his duties and his life with his family at Francis E. Warren. He talks about his decision not to reenlist with the Air Force after serving for four years. After his enlistment with the Air Force, Steven joined the Air National Guard because it allowed him to be closer to planes. He describes his work for the Air National Guard during the eighties were he was deployed to Moron, Spain several times. In the nineties Steven worked as a crew chief and was able to see the world. He describes his deployments to the United Arab Emirates, Italy, and Kosovo. He talks about the conditions and the atmosphere with the locals in Souda Bay, Crete where they were stationed during the Kosovo mission. After this Steven became student flight coordinator in charge of new recruits and then a first sergeant. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 39 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
39 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/s6gq90vq |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Kosovo War (Serbia : 1998-1999); Aviation mechanics (Persons) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1028277 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gq90vq |
| Title |
Page 34 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1028270 |
| OCR Text |
Show teven chiele 22 rua 2010 that because it s kind of an interesting story. Michael hort he a lieut nant g n ral, n a colonel. He came down to see us and he just drew it out for him. He said You kn w you've got to understand something. Everybody here at this particular wing or expeditionary force are all traditional Guardsmen and we have lives on the other side of this, not that it takes away from the point that you need us for a mission, but if you don't need us, this first in-first out deal isn't going to work here. If you don't need us anymore we need to go home because we have people who need to get back to lives. So that didn't set well with him, but if you would have listened to the briefings that we got when we arrived the 181 h of May, our wing commander said basically, look, give me forty-five days here. He said that without saying it. He said, "Let's get through the next month and that's basically what we were gone. I think we were gone about forty-five days. So the last three weeks the Chambe of Commerce again, if you will, the city mayor came to our, the Navy commander and said, Well, listen, why don't we just, let's just do away with this curfew for the most part. Let's let you come into Chania from nine o'clock in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon. But after three o'clock you've got to be out of Dodge. Understand, the citizens of Greece are very prideful people and they were, I guess, the word we got was they didn't want us messing with their women downtown, the jealossy factor there and all that. We didn't want to get involved in that. We wanted to be able to break clean from that. That was part of the reason they didn 't want us in town at night. Funny thing was, you could drive to the other side of Chania to the beach resorts and they loved us there. We had money. We were their customers. It left quite a statement to the fact that they were good enough to take our money, but not good enough to share the spoils of their community from that standpoint. 33 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gq90vq/1028270 |
