| 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 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032127 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 1 mb r 2009 another year and a half. So there was a lot of tension. There wa a lot of kind finner problems that I had. I was really upset about it. I remember just really ... because my dad had heard it not really through military chain. He had heard about it before I had because he worked out at the same gym with my recruiter. The recruiter had somehow let it slip that we were being deployed in January. So my dad came home and said, "I heard you guys are getting deployed in January." I told him, I got pretty upset with him. I told him that I think he was lying. I don't know why he was trying to make me mad. Had a fight with him. But he was just trying to tell me, well, you're getting deployed in January. Then it was just later that weekend that I received the news from my chief. So it was kind of. .. JCW: Why'd you get mad? TJ: At the time I was at school, I'd been dating a girl for a little while. When I was with her I was like, gosh, this is the girl that I'd really like to be with. So for me it was, well, maybe this could lead to something. So I mean I wasn't looking at marrying or anything like that, but I did want to see where it might lead to. So as a result of that, I kind of felt like I had my life in order. I'd planned it out inside my head, at least, what I was going to do and one of those plans wasn't go to Iraq for a year, be deployed for a year and a half. So that was kind of the furthest thing from my mind. So for it to come, I was extremely upset, not only with the fact that we're being deployed, but you kind of have this mentality that if the military's going to tell you something, you're not going to hear about it from some outside source. The military will be the one to tell you. So I think on top of that I was a little upset that my dad was the one that was coming telling me this because I didn't trust his credibility in knowing it, and I just thought for some reason he 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032127 |
