Brent Huff, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, October 20, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-15, 17

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Brent Huff ended up doing was we were working in an office. We called Marine in th ina tiv status, so guys that were basically out, but for two years you're just a civilian on a Ii t, basically, but they're still eligible for orders. So we would call them up and let them know that there were some orders available. Before I'd gone to this office they'd actually handled the involuntary recall. So they'd call guys and let them know they were getting called up. But it was changed more into something like recruiting customer service oriented kind of thing. JCW: So you would basically sell orders to people? BH: Yeah, exactly. JCW: Was it something that you were successful at? BH: Yeah, I was really good at it. In fact, most of the guys in the office were from this unit, which is why I heard about it. Because, again, Utah, it's where call centers are; it's where people who know, they're raised to be missionaries or something. So we always had guys from Utah. We actually had a Joseph Smith in there once (laughs). We brought him on just because we thought it was funny. We were calling him for something else and said, "Hey, look, it's Joseph Smith." So we just brought him on orders because ... But that was a good job. I was good at it. Eventually I became the NCO/IC there, the non-commissioned officer in charge. The way I did that is I kind of changed the office, actually. It was more like, this is something I put on my civilian resume, because I looked at it like a job I had for a couple of years and it good while I was there. I got in there and they were still using like cards and it just ran really antiquated, I guess. So I don't like to work; I don't like to just put my head down and sit at a desk. So I'd find ways to make things work more efficiently by changing the filing system and eventually 52