| Title |
Robert L. Merrill, West Jordan, Utah: an interview by Frances Merrill |
| Alternative Title |
Robert L. Merrill, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Merrill, Robert L., 1961- |
| Contributor |
Merrill, Frances; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Saudi Arabia |
| Subject |
Merrill, Robert L., 1961- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Frances Merrill with Robert L. Merrill on March 22, 2004. Part of the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Merrill (b. 1961) enlisted in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in July 1980. He was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, until December 1990, when his unit shipped out to Saudi Arabia. The ground war portion of Desert Storm began in January 1991. Merrill describes life in the military and talks about his political views. He retired from the military in 2001. Interviewed by Frances Merrill. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s6j69jz4 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Persian Gulf War (1991) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034912 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69jz4 |
| Title |
Page 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034888 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT L. MERRILL March 22, 2004 heat and I don't get along anyway but when it was there- ! 1nean we sp nt a coupl f week there so we was there through Clu·istmas. And at hristmas they tried to decorate a tree to make it look a little bit Christmasy, but it was kind of hard when it was 80 degrees. FHM: Was it a pine tree? RLM: Yeah, it was a pine tree, and they tried to make the best of it for us. But at that place, right there, we did a lot of training. We did GPS training. FHM: What is that, GPS? RLM: That is-we had a handheld unit. Since we were in the desert you couldn't go off land features. So with a GPS, what it would do-we'd have to gut-we'd be riding in a vehicle to a destination, the coordinates that we'd punch in, and it would tell us if we were still on course. But in order for it to work we had to get out of the vethicle because the metal would throw it off. So, we'd get out, and drive a little bit, and get out, and make sure we were still on course. FHM: Are you saying there were not roads there? RLM: There were some roads. Once we got to the place where we encamped during the war, and the times that we could actually see-we couldn't actually see the oil wells on fire, but we could-the smoke was really dense in the air. And we got-! guess we was about 18 miles away from the Kuwaiti border, and from the Iraqi border. But the smoke was so dense that it just-it just made it dark the whole time when they started lighting them oil wells on fire. But to go into some of the cities like Riyadh, and places like that-they did have actually paved roads. FHM: Okay. What was your job assignment there? RLM: At that time I was in the communications. I was the section leader at that time. I took 6 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69jz4/1034888 |
