| 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 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032131 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 14 mb r2 9 So, I don't know. I personally wasn't really upset by being in infantry. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was cool that we were going to have this extra skill et that we didn't learn previously, or at least just a little bit of it in basic training. But there were definitely some people that were wishing that we would have stuck with artillery. JCW: Did you get a chance to go home before you guys actually deployed overseas? Or was it straight from Mississippi? TJ: Yeah, we were in Mississippi until May, I think, 10th. Then at that point they shipped us to the NTC, National Training Center in California. We did one month training there, which was probably the worst training in the entire world, just hot desert climate. They make you stay in tents. The tents get up to about 130 degrees during the day, so you try to sleep under your cot so you can block out as many ultraviolet rays you can (laughs). It's just kind of ridiculous. We finished our training and we had a ten day pass to go home. I remember coming home for the ten day pass and it was just kind of a depressing situation the entire time. Nice to be home, great to see everybody again, but I'm leaving in ten days and this time it's for real, it's not just going back to do training in another part of the United States. There was kind of a sobering atmosphere. Just spent a lot of time with my family, some friends, but mainly just at home with my family. Didn't have a desire to do anything with anybody else. So just stayed at home and just kind of waited for the time that we went again. After that time, though, they shipped us back to Mississippi just for another few weeks. Then from that point sent us off to Kuwait, there was a holding period. So we 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032131 |
