| 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 |
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| 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 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032126 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 14 m r2 had fallen behind. When I was on the mission I didn t really think about it, but n a I got home I realized a lot of the people that are my same age are getting prom ted up t specialist. Then a few short months later, those same people were getting promoted to sergeant and I just felt like I was really behind the eight ball at that point because of the mission. JCW: So you didn't pick up rank at all when you were on your mission? TJ: No. Well, I enlisted as a private first class. So I got in as an E3, but then as soon as I got back from my mission, I went and I was, no, I got in as a ... oh. Yeah, I got in as a private first class. Then as soon as I got back from my mission-so I got back in August of 2004-I was still private first class. By that point I didn't really know my chief, I didn't know anybody else in my section, so there wasn't really anybody lobbying to get me promoted in rank or to kind of get me pushed up the chain. Because on top of that they didn't know what I was capable of or what I was even going to do. So I was just kind of sitting in no-man's land. I didn't really have a whole lot of people to petition to try to get me advancement in rank. Then I was just kind of stuck where I was at PFC. But upon getting back from my mission ... JCW: Which was that year again? Sorry. TJ: Two thousand four. I went down to Southern Utah University. I did one semester of school down there. At the end of that semester, by the end of that semester we already had our orders. We were shipping on January 25th out to Mississippi to do training. So on top of that there was a lot of, I just barely finished two years away from home, away from family, away from doing what I really wanted to do, to now I'm going to be gone for 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032126 |
