| 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 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032130 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 14 m r20 9 By near the end of the time that we'd been there, o probably around pri I th y d given us a little bit better idea to say, you know, when you go over there we're going t have three missions. One is going to be doing artillery, the other mi ion is going to be doing road and combat patrol, so going out to operating positions, OPs, and then etting up and just watching what's happening on the roads. Then the other is going to be-did I already mention artillery? Then the other one would be FOB defense, just base defense. JCW: So tell me, you're an artillery guy. Did it bug you that you guys were being turned into basically a crack infantry unit? TJ: (laughs) I liked it. When you're young, it's cool to see tanks and howitzers explode and they'll just kind of rock these rounds and just launch them. But at the same time, you go back ... one of my favorite movies growing up was "Platoon" where you have these guys going through Vietnam carrying their rifles, just wading through and stuff. So for me it was kind of fun to kind of do the same thing. You're out there with your rifle, you have all this gear on and you're just this infantryman. So I thought there was a lot of excitement in it. There's definitely a lot of people that weren't cut out for it. You get in the artillery phase and a lot of people get overweight once they 've been in the National Guard. So I remember that whole time in Mississippi, every single morning we ran at least three to four miles because there was a lot of emphasis placed on being physically able, especially within my platoon. My platoon leader and platoon sergeant, they had this pretty strong mentality that if you get stranded somewhere you're probably going to be running several miles with full [unclear] gear on to be able to get back to where you need to be. So there was a lot of increased training to get you ready for that more rigorous type of environment. 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032130 |
