| Title |
Brent Huff, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, October 20, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-15, 17 |
| Alternative Title |
Brent Huff, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Huff, Brent |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-10-20 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Kuwait; Iraq |
| Subject |
Huff, Brent--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (64 pages) of an interview by John C. Worsencroft with Brent Huff on October 20, 2009. From tape numbers IA-15 and IA-17 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Huff was born in West Valley City, Utah. He discusses his family, growing up and schooling. He joined the Marine Reserves, went to boot camp, and trained as an infantryman. He was called up for active duty shortly after September 11, 2001. His unit was sent to California for a year of training before being sent to Kuwait, then later Baghdad. He discusses the experiences and conditions there. He relates his combat experiences, missions and activities. He also talks about returning home and continuing his reserve activities, relating various training missions and other activities. He completed his enlistment in the Marines, and got a degree in philosophy from the University of Utah before joining the Army. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 64 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
64 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/s64f3ss6 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034332 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64f3ss6 |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034289 |
| OCR Text |
Show Br nt Huff ct b r 20 9 were bodies. I can't remember what we called the guy, the fir t b dy we aw it wa like Flat Jack or something. Some guy had just been run over by the am track. I was less disturbed by things than I think people had been or how you're supposed to be. It was actually, it was just interesting. It was like going to Body World here, watching the faces of death or something like that. There were bodies on the side of the road that artillery had got in and there were bodies in the road that had been shot or run over. At that point, you don't think about it too much. You just assume everyone's the enemy. Some have RPGs and there are people down the alleys firing. So what is just war was accepted as part of it I guess, for me. After going through Nasiriyah, north of Nasiriyah is where we had our first contact. It's kind of like a far ambush, I guess. The buildings were pretty far away from us. We got contact, we got fired on from those buildings. So we stopped and hopped out of the trucks. I remember feeling like one guy wasn't moving fast enough and literally giving him a little bit of boot off the back of the truck-I tend to get excited-then just kind of crawling around the other side of the road, the ditch on the other side of the road. We were convinced that the guys were in a smaller compound between us and almost, the way I remember it, like the edge of a city or something like that. It was actually a fair distance away from the road. There was a lot of dead space between. Then there was like a walled-off compound within that dead space. So we basically all in a gaggle rushed towards this compound. It really was; it was ridiculous. It was a complete abortion. It was combat version, for sure. We just all fired at this little compound. What was happening, I guess, was that the rounds were coming in through this compound, but like ricocheting or coming through the building such that we thought they 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64f3ss6/1034289 |
