| Title |
Tyler Jewkes, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, December 14, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-26 |
| Alternative Title |
Tyler Jewkes, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Jewkes, Tyler |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-12-14 |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Jewkes, Tyler--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (44 pages) of an interview by John C. Worsencroft with Tyler Jewkes on December 14, 2009. From tape number IA-26 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jewkes was born in Richfield, Utah. He joined the Utah National Guard 222 Field Artillery unit out of high school. He received boot camp training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, starting in November 2001. That was followed by Advanced Individual Training at the same location. He describes these training experiences. He served a LDS mission to Santiago, Chile, from 2002 to 2004. His unit was deployed to Camp Shelby, Mississippi in January 2005. After training, Jewkes shipped to Kuwait and was stationed at Ramadi, Iraq, for a year, where he rotated through duties: base defense; road and combat patrol; artillery. He left Iraq in June 2006. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 44 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s60p323q |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032154 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q |
| Title |
Page 8 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032116 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 14 D mb r 20 9 TJ: We did three days ... before you go they have one drill that they ' ll end you up t Camp Williams and they call it VTOC, where it's preparation for ba ic training. I remember going to VTOC at that time and the training there was rigorous. We did pushups left and right. The very first day, the very first minute the drill sergeants or drill instructors came into the room, had a chair hit into my face as I was going down to do pushups and bloodied my nose pretty good. I was expecting basic training to be the exact same. Just nonstop from the second they come in they're going to start yelling, "pushups, pushups, pushups." So when I got to basic training there was a lot of fear in me. I was afraid. I had no idea what was going to happen. I wasn't in the best shape of my life. I was probably, at that time I was only fivefoot- eight and probably about 180 pounds and just chubby. I didn't have really any muscular structure. So I was worried about being able to perform the physical requirements. We're in the holdover area where you're getting ready to go into your blocks to get into your training. I remember we had to just run a one mile and if you didn't run the one mile in under, I think it was like eight minutes, then you weren't going home for Christmas (laughs), some type of motivation like that. So I remember a lot of my motivation was I've just got to pass these basic core tests so that I can get into basic training, and then I'm just going to be able to work with everything there. But then once I did actually get in there, yeah, there's a lot of yelling, there's a lot of screaming at you, having you do a lot of pushups. But I realized it was a lot more organized, that there's purpose behind it, that they're not doing it to punish you, but that you're actually learning a little bit from it, at least to work together and at least to get on the same page and then pay attention to detail. 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032116 |
