| 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 42 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032150 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tyler Jewke 14 D c mb r 20 are never associated with that. You always have the associations that are geared t ward there's the one organization that are always working the legislature to be able t pa new rights. They talked about that one in the Guard level, but there's not a whole lot of pu h to get people involved with it or sign up with it. JCW: What about you personally? Do you belong to any of those online or lobbying groups? TJ: No. JCW: No. What about, have you had any interaction with the VA or anything like that? TJ: I haven't. I've had, I mean you have your basic outscreen process where they come in and they check all your levels, psychologically, mentally, everything else, but I never sought anything further with that. I had the possibility to possibly get benefits because of hearing loss, but just didn't pursue it. I didn't feel like it was that substantial to even worry about it to take my time doing it. For the most part, I think that, I know that they're always available to me, but I've just never felt the need to go about them. JCW: So you ended up reenlisting, probably a couple of years ago then, right? TJ: Just barely this last year. JCW: What was that experience like? Was it a big decision? T J: No, I knew I was going to re-up. I knew I was going to sign back up for at least. .. the decision was between three or six years. At that time I was just engaged to my wife and so it was still a collective decision between the two of us, but I kind of had the mentality that I'm going to re-up anyways, so you just kind of better get onboard with this because I'm going to do it anyways (laughs). So whether she liked that or not, that's kind of what happened. But I just kind of made that decision and it was just kind of a 41 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60p323q/1032150 |
