1 50 2 https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/5a29acf22530bb2ea808331ee3a992a7.pdf d2ceb4999e13cd9f7daf277ec095c0f9 PDF Text Text Military Oral History Interview Transcript Greg Boyd Kings Mountain, North Carolina 16 October 2011 JB: Justin Boyd GB: Greg Boyd JB: Today is October 16th, 2011 and my name is Justin Boyd. I will be interviewing my dad Greg Boyd for an oral history project for my American Military History Class at Appalachian State University. I’m conducting this interview at our home in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. JB: First let’s start off by putting information together about what service were you in and how old were you when you joined? GB: I joined the armory when I was 17 in 1978. JB: What did you go in as? GB: I enlisted as an E-2. JB: E-2. Where did you go to basic training? GB: Basic training was at Fort Dix, New Jersey. JB: Did you have to wait while you were at basic, or, did you have to wait before you shipped off to basic training for any extended period of time. GB: About two weeks. JB: I know that when I enlisted I had to wait about four months, no, take that back, I waited 7 months before I shipped off to basic training. Why did you decide to enlist? GB: Where I grew up, there weren’t many job opportunities, couldn’t afford college, so it was the best alternative at the time. JB: What was your MOS when you joined? GB: I was a 63B1P. JB: Which is what? GB: Wheeled vehicle power generator mechanic, parachute badge qualified. JB: Is that, did you keep that same job the whole, the whole time you were in? 1 �GB: I made it to 63B4 and then also as a secondary as 62B4 which is heavy equipment mechanic. JB: So basically the same thing just more in depth? GB: No, “63” are wheeled vehicles, “64” is engine air type equipment like bulldozers and scrapers, and graders, and all trucks, things like that. JB: You enlisted active duty right? GB: Yes. JB: How long were you in active duty? GB: Four and a half years, I extended for six months for a tour in the Sinai Desert, with multinational force and observes. JB: What year were you deployed? What years I should say. GB: 1982. JB: It was just 1982? GB: Yes, part of 1982 and part of 1983. JB: What were the months from? GB: Aw shoot I don’t remember, let me think, I believe…I don’t recall, I don’t recall. JB: Was it hot or cold when you were over there? GB: Oh, it was hot over there, hot in the Sinai. It only rained only one time for about five seconds for six months. JB: Exactly where is the Sinai Desert? GB: It’s at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. JB: Was that part of any war, or were you just deployed there for… GB: Well it was in accordance with Camp David Accords when the Israelis and the Egyptians, came to terms on returning the Sinai Desert to the Egyptians. JB: Go ahead and establish how long were you in the military altogether? GB: I was in the Army and Army National Guard for 20 years and three months. JB: And you switched to National Guard after four and a half years of active duty. 2 �GB: Yes JB: Which would have been 1967? GB: No. JB: ‘68? GB: No, I went in in ‘78. JB: Oh ‘78. GB: And then switched by 1984. JB: Ok. Let’s back up a little bit, what were you doing just before you joined the armed forces? Were you working, or obviously were working, were you married, still single? GB: Was in high school, I was single, but I was also working as part of a Distributive Education Clubs of America, which is DECA, an organization at a local hardware store. JB: Didn’t you meet mom because of the military? GB: Yea we, your mom and I met in the National Guard in Kings Mountain. JB: What year was that? GB: 1987, 1987 JB: 1987? What year did yaw get married? (Mom) 1989 GB: 1989, April 22. JB: Yaw were both still in the military at, both still in the Army National Guard at that time? GB: Yes. JB: Which wars, if any did you serve in? GB: During my time in? JB: Yes. GB: I think Grenada was the only war, only actual conflict, and I was not involved in Grenada, but I was in the Guard. JB: So you… 3 �GB: And then Desert Storm came up and we weren’t, I did not mobilize Desert Storm either. JB: So you weren’t deployed in either of them? GB: No. JB: But for both of them you were still with the National Guard unit in Kings Mountain? GB: Yes. JB: Which is what unit? GB: It was the 505th Engineers, Company B of the 505th Engineers. JB: Okay. During your time in the military, what kind of specialized training did you receive, like airborne school, air assault school, any specialty schools? GB: I went to jump school. JB: Airborne School? GB: Yes. JB: When? GB: In, I actually graduated from school on Thanksgiving Day in 1978. JB: Was it easy or hard? GB: It was hard I was there five weeks instead of three. JB: Why? GB: I couldn’t do the chin-ups. JB: You couldn’t do the chin ups? GB: Yea got recycled twice. JB: How many chin ups did you have to do? GB: I think seven. JB: Seven in any given amount of time, or just seven? GB: No just seven. JB: When did you go to PLDC? 4 �GB: I believe PLDC would’ve been, about 1987 or ‘88. JB: And just to clarify, what kind of school is that? GB: That is the primary leadership development course. JB: For what? GB: That was for my promotion to E5, and that was at Asheville, North Carolina. JB: Was it like a, an actual military place, like a base that you went to in Asheville, or was it.. GB: Well it’s, it’s an actual military school sponsored by the state of north Carolina, all the requirements, are military have satisfied pt test, and a couple other things. JB: And did you ever go to ANOC? GB: Yea I went to PLDC, BNOC, and ANOC, phase 1 and phase 2. JB: What is BNOC? GB: Basic NCO course. JB: Was that part of the same thing as the E school. GB: No that was for E6. JB: E6? And when did you go there? GB: Eh probably shoot, ‘91, ‘92 JB: And what is ANOC? GB: ANOC was advanced NCO school for E7, and that would’ve been about 1995. JB: So you got E7 in 1995? GB: Eh probably ‘95 or ‘96 JB: Did you, did you ever serve in any non-combative oversea deployments? GB: Yea, I went to Ecuador, and Honduras. JB: When did you go to Ecuador? GB: In early, it would’ve been late 80’s wouldn’t it (asking wife)? (mom) Where? 5 �GB: Ecuador. (mom) It was actually when mawmaw had her surgery, which would have been, Justin was born in 91, it would’ve been in around March of 1992? GB: Yea been in ‘92, and JB: Was it, was this when you were in the National Guard? GB: Yes. JB: Obviously. GB: Yes, well it was humanitarian nation a village had been cut off from society by a mudslide; we went in and had to cut a road from Keto to the village. JB: Was it successful? GB: Yes, I believe it took more than one rotation; it probably took two or three rotations to complete it. JB: How long were you there? GB: I was there three weeks. JB: Three weeks in Honduras? GB: Two weeks in Honduras, three in Ecuador JB: Ok. What was the weather like while yaw were down there in Ecuador? Like What part of the year was it? GB: It rained a little bit, but it wasn’t too bad. JB: From the mudslides? GB: Yea JB: That’s what caused the mudslides. GB: Well the mudslides actually happened long before we got there. JB: But, the weather wasn’t too bad once yaw got there, like… GB: Nah, it probably rained a couple times. JB: On, once yaw started, once yaw started clearing away the mudslides and stuff. GB: Nah we actually cut a new road, the mudslide road was, 6 �JB: Okay. GB: Given up. JB: So the weather didn’t really make… GB: No. JB: Make yaw stay there longer? GB: We had bulldozers going in the river pushing rock out to go to the rock crusher, so it wasn’t real bad. JB: How long were you in Honduras? GB: Two weeks. JB: At the same time? GB: No it was later, it was probably in ‘93, ‘94 JB: What did yaw have to do there? GB: We were part of a US effort to build what was that an updated road, almost a highway, within Honduras. JB: A highway? GB: Yes, it wasn’t really a dirt road, it was kind of improved, it was an improved surface road. JB: So like gravel? GB: Probably packed gravel. JB: Sort of like what we have out there on the greenway trail? GB: Yes. JB: I know that from when I went down to Honduras a couple years ago, it was very humid. We went down in the middle of the summertime, so I guess technically there it was, well let’s see is Honduras above the equator or below? GB: Below. JB: So technically it would have been the rainy season I guess there, but it only rained like one day, but it was very humid, was it humid while you were there? GB: Yes, it was hot and humid. 7 �JB: How hot? GB: Probably in the middle 90’s, high 90’s all the time. JB: And high, very high humidity? GB: Yes. JB: What about any stateside deployments? GB: We had one to Florida for hurricane relief, and… JB: Which hurricane? GB: That would’ve been Fran, I believe. JB: What year was that? GB: Shoot, I don’t remember. JB: Before I was born? GB: You can Google that. JB: Before I was born? GB: No, you can Google that. JB: All right. GB: We had the one there hurricane Hugo we got deployed for, we got deployed for a bunch of wild fires also up in the mountains of North Carolina. JB: Were you in North Carolina for the Hugo relief? GB: Oh, yes. Yes, we were staying over in Mecklenburg County most of the time. Mother: That was September of ’89 GB: We also had about three deployments to San Diego, California for border type missions two were fence related and one was actually a road up into brown mountain, made it easier for the border patrol to go up into the mountains and bring the illegal’s back down. JB: Where is Brown Mountain at? GB: In Southern California. JB: So it’s right on the border with Mexico? 8 �GB: Yes, it actually close to Tijuana. JB: Were they having a lot of problems down there, or was this, they were just putting the fence up sort of? GB: No, they’ve always had problems. They’ve got probably a couple hundred border patrol officers working in that region. JB: How big is the region? Just all around the mountain? GB: I’ll give you an example they’ve got a greyhound bus that they’ve beefed up just a little bit to, to go up in the mountain to bring them down a busload at a time. JB: Sheesh GB: One of the trips to San Diego was to build a sewer line. The people of Tijuana had their raw sewage coming into the United States so we built a diversion culvert, to take it back to Mexico to a waste treatment plant that was, I think built by the US. So what we were doing was rerouting their raw sewage back to them. JB: Ha-ha-ha (chuckling) Tell me about a couple of your most memorable ex, memorable experiences throughout your whole career in the military. GB: FTX’s were always memorable, I had some good experiences it we-, in the field with the platoon and the guys. JB: Is that when you with the Guard unit or during some kind of training? GB: With the Guard. JB: Where did yaw go on yaws FTX’s? GB: We went to Fort Jackson, we went to Fort Bragg, we went to Camp Butner, then Fort Pickett. JB: Virginia? GB: Yes, places not too far away, but we got to travel a little bit. JB: Did yaw go on about one a year? GB: Yes, we probably went on one FTX a year, and one summer camp a year. JB: Summer camp being AT? GB: Yes. 9 �JB: Two weeks? GB: Yes, the most memorable AT was the one during the day when we were getting on Fort Bragg it was 80 degrees during the day, but that night it snowed. JB: Ha-ha. GB: First Sergeant Ellis came out of his tent that morning and he said “I don’t care what color it is, if it will keep you warm, put it on.” JB: Ha-ha. GB: It was like 35 degrees that morning. JB: Was this during the summer time? GB: Yea, right on the verge, like early spring. JB: So sometime around March, April? GB: Yes. JB: And it snowed in Fort Bragg down there in Fayetteville? GB: Yes. JB: When I was in Fort Bragg this summer, it was 104 degrees every day. GB: Man oh man, it can get hot. JB: When you were on your deployments, either in state or in Honduras or where ever you were, were you able to, and how did you stay in touch with your family? GB: In the Sinai they actually installed a satellite station for us to make calls, through the nearest military installation to where we were calling, in my case it was through Fort Bragg to Fort Benjamin Harrison, then to my hometown in Indiana. JB: Which was where? GB: Jasonville, Indiana. JB: Is that where your parents lived? GB: Yes. JB: Or what about all the rest of your family? GB: Oh they all lived up there at that time. 10 �JB: Ok. All in Jasonville? GB: Yes. Any place else other than the Sinai, we just used a standard phone that was provided by the unit. JB: Like a sat phone? GB: No, it was an actual landline. JB: What about when you were in Honduras, and Ecuador and stuff? GB: I don’t remember making any calls in Honduras or Ecuador. JB: And you were only there for a couple weeks though. GB: Yes. JB: What about stateside? GB: What do you mean? JB: Were you able to contact your family stuff when you were in Florida or California or? GB: Oh yes, in San Diego I just used a pay phone. I had a calling card. JB: Ha-ha they had payphones back then? (jokingly) GB: Yes. JB: Ha-ha did you have cell phones back then? GB: No, I didn’t. JB: What about email? GB: Cell phones were still as big as suitcases back then. I didn’t have any email either. JB: All right so when did you finally retire out of the Guard? GB: In 1998. JB: 1998? What all went down? Were you, did you, do you miss it at all? GB: Well yes, but the guys that the unit gave me several gifts. One of them was actually a pretty nice golf club. Your mom through me a party and a fish fry, and had several people at the house from the unit. It was real nice. JB: Do you miss it at all? 11 �GB: I miss the guys. JB: You don’t miss being actually in the Guard though? GB: Well, not really, no. I figured I could contribute to my retirement better working than I could in the Guard. JB: Well, I believe that about sums it up thank you for time dad. I hope I could bring back some good memories. GB: You’re welcome. 12 � https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/e81108a567d8855fddf7cdf5529692ff.mp3 4b822763fe03c1297ee75eb6370786ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Tag Army, Fort Dix, mechanic, Sinai Desert, Camp David Accords, Army National Guard, 505th Engineers National Guard Unit, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Fort Bragg, Fort Butner, Fort Pickett, Sinai Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Greg Boyd, 16 October 2011 Subject The topic of the resource United States Veterans Boyd, Greg National Guard United States Interviews Description An account of the resource Greg Boyd, Army and Army National Guard, was born in 1961 and joined the armory at age 17 as an E-2. He discusses meeting his wife while in service, family, training, and deployments to Honduras and Ecuador as well as domestic deployments. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Boyd, Greg Boyd, Justin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="UA.5018. American Military History Course Records" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/167" target="_blank">UA.5018. American Military History Course Records</a> Extent The size or duration of the resource. 12 pages Language A language of the resource English Airborne School Army National Guard Ecuador Fort Dix Honduras Sinai Desert https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/38381f82a9cb2b00fa7646c7f824483c.pdf 9af5d0a3a513340fc5ca802eca2a57a2 PDF Text Text Military Oral History Interview Transcript Steven Crowe Newton, North Carolina 13 October 2011 SR: Seth Revetta SC: Lieutenant Colonel Steven Crowe SR: I am here with Lieutenant Colonel Crowe, retired. It is 13 October 2011. My name is Seth Revetta, our first question shall be when and where were you born, sir? SC: Born in 1962 in Valdese, North Carolina. SR: What type of home life did you have? SC: I would characterize my early childhood years as probably lower income or upper-lower class. Mainly rural area upbringing. You know the “work hard then play later.” SR: When and why did you join the military? SC: Well, I joined the military because of the values that were instilled in me as a young kid. There was the work ethic, the honesty ethic, put your nose to the grindstone ethic. Matured and grew up a little bit more, of course along with that came patriotism and whenever I got to the point of making the decision about my future I felt like I had to give back to the country, a country that’s afforded me some privileges that I enjoy. SR: What made you want go to Appalachian State University to get your commission? SC: Actually I didn’t make that decision, my senior army instructor at East Burke High School made for me. I was a young dumb senior and he pulled me in one day in class and asked me if I wanted to go to college. I moaned around like a normal high school student does and after he verbally beat me up and got my head straight, him and Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm McDanner, who was the PMS (Professor of Military Science) at Appalachian at that time basically coordinated my future for me. And that’s how Appalachian came into the picture. SR: Where was your first duty station, and what were some of the difficulties you found as a new officer? SC: First duty station was South Korea after I finished up Officer Basic and Airborne School. And the biggest thing that I encountered right off the bat was that being a young officer and being surrounded by NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) who were the same age as me and in some cases old enough to be my dad. Having them follow me as the leader, and as a young, green, second lieutenant that was the biggest challenge. SR: Where all has the army sent you since you first joined? 1 �SC: After I left Korea, I came back to Fort Bragg, and spent six years there, and of those six… three of them were spent in places like Panama with Operation Just Cause, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo. You know of course Iraq and Saudi Arabia and Baharan during the Gulf War and various places like that. After that I spent time at Fort Leavenworth (Kansas) on two occasions, one for Command General Staff College in Washington, D.C. at PERSCOM (Personnel Command) twice. I spent another assignment at the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell (Kentucky) and I finished out my career back in Korea as battalion commander. SR: What were some of the different schools you have been to and give a description of each school? SC: Some of the schools, of course, were more local schools for the units. But some of the major schools that I attended that I have patches or certificates for are Air Assault Course, and that is basically learning how to rappel out of helicopters, sling loading equipment, fast roping, those kinds of things. Of course in Airborne School you jump out of airplanes that falls in line with the vertical envelopment doctrine in our battle. The other school that I went to was Ranger School when I was in the 82nd Airborne I had the opportunity to go there. That school involved weapons and tactics and all kinds of things like that but in my opinion the most important thing from Ranger School I learned was more about leadership and more about myself and my own capabilities and how far I can push myself. Then I would say that after that Command General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, the FBI academy in ’97 and that pretty much sums up all the major schools. SR: You said you went to Airborne School, have you also been to Jump Master School? SC: Yes I have. I forgot about that one, not that it’s not important, that was probably the second hardest course I went through. The washout rate there was over 50 percent for each class. The hardest part about Jump Master School was actually learning the nomenclature for all the stuff associated with airborne operations and also memorizing all the technical specifications, you know for all that equipment and putting it into use along with, you know. Being in charge of the safety of the plane and knowing the commands and your makers on the drop zone. It’s a really mentally intense course and but after I got out of Ranger School, in my opinion that wasn’t an issue because Ranger School to me was the hardest school. SR: What are some of the best memories that you gained over the 21 years you’ve been in the Army? SC: A few stand out, one that stands out is, of course the day I graduated from Ranger School and got that ranger tab. That was, I’ll never forget that day, I’ll never forget what happened afterwards, how I conducted raids on Wendy’s and Hardees and Morison’s Café and every place between there and Fort Bragg. Another good memory was the day I was selected for battalion command and took command of that battalion, and of course the day I retired. SR: What were some of the biggest difficulties you faced as an officer? 2 �SC: The biggest difficulties was learning to adapt to the various leaders that I encountered over the years, some were very hard to work for. Some, in my opinion, were incompetent, but you learn very quickly in the army how to adapt and develop different methodologies, work around some of the problems that you perceive. So I think self-development wise that was one of my hardest ones. As far as the other challenges, I would say that not quite as many as one would think once you’re in the army, but near the ladder half of my career I started noticing a change in the quality and caliber of the soldiers coming in and I was a little disappointed that it seemed like their values were waning and lacking compared to earlier generations. SR: You said that you found it difficult to work for some leaders and that you had to adapt, how exactly did you adapt sir? SC: A lot of that really centered on me, not them. I naturally have a “Type A” personality, I want to take charge and get the job done. Get things organized, etcetera, etcetera and when I was working for people that weren’t like that I had to learn some self discipline, some self restraint type techniques and to be quite frank with you one of the biggest ones was physical fitness. A lot of times I would do a lot of working out to get rid of that pent up energy and frustration. The other thing I did is I had a mentor that I worked with and they knew exactly what I was going through and they gave me some coping strategies, such as how to address a problem with that, my superior in such a way that they would come around the way I wanted then to make a decision and kind of a manipulation technique so to speak. SR: What were some of the factors that made you want to retire? SC: Only one. I was single throughout my whole career, I came home on leave, I met my wife… my now wife, at church. She was my high school sweet heart as a senior in high school and I hadn’t seen her in twenty years. She happened to be at the church and we started dating, and we decided to get married and after that, with two step daughters in the picture, that was the only decision I had to make. SR: What exactly made you want to teach JROTC (Junior Reserves Officers Training Corps)? SC: One reason, to pay back what Colonel Wilson, my SAI (Senior Army Instructor) did for me at East Burke High School. Hopefully put somebody on the track to success like I was placed on the track. SR: How exactly did you get the Senior Instructor leadership role at Fred T. Foard? SC: Once I made the decision to retire, I had to make another decision on what kind of post army career I wanted to pursue and basically, throughout my whole life, I’ve always been thankful for Lieutenant Colonel Wilson for what he’s did for me so it wasn’t too hard to arrive at the decision. I’d like to get back here and pay him back in my own way. So what I did was Immediately went to the ROTC website, JROTC website online while I was in Korea and looked for vacancies and there was one open in Fred T. Foard High School and I remember we played them when I was in high school and it wasn’t too far from where I grew up. Well, I went on the 3 �website, emailed the principal, found out it was a brand new program that was being started; I would be the first SAI. I wrote her an email, she called me up and the rest is history. SR: When do you plan on finishing up your time at Fred T. Foard and where do you plan on going after that? SC: I’ve been planning on retiring every year since I’ve been here, but one thing here or there has canceled that or delayed that but I guess realistically my mark on the wall is ten years. So if I can make it to say 2015 that might be the year I decided to retire. When I do get there I would like to, I defiantly don’t plan on pursuing anymore work, but I’d like to maybe address maybe some hobbies and interests that I have been putting off for a few years like, maybe trying to write a book and getting involved with some organizations that I have been wanting to get involved with. SR: Which types of organizations would those be sir? SC: Mainly church and civic organizations, kind of volunteer work, you know giving back. SR: At this time I have no further questions. Is there anything that you would like to talk about that I haven’t asked you or anything that you would like to expand upon in a question that I asked previously? SC: No, I think we pretty much covered it. I like to see that my students continuing to succeed at Appalachian like yourself and I always like it when you guys come back here and even when you’re talking to me about this, the other students get to see you. We like to breed success here and it’s good to see you’re continuing your success and we’re proud of you. SR: Well sir, thank you for your time. SC: Thank you. 4 � https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/bdd2acee34b1cc417a921e0da93ada1d.mp3 8a1f421d498aae10ca591908dcd22abd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Appalachian State University American Military History Course Veterans Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Each semester, the students of the American Military History Course at Appalachian State University conduct interviews with military veterans and record their military experiences in order to create an archive of oral history interviews that are publicly accessible to researchers. The oral histories are permanently available in the Appalachian State University Special Collections. The project is supervised by Dr. Judkin Browning, Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University and all interviews are transcribed by the student interviewers. Copyright Notice: Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project’s audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. These materials are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Veterans Oral History Project, University Archives and Records, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Revetta, Seth Interview Date 10/13/11 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:12:06 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. 4 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with Steven Crowe, 13 October 2011 Description An account of the resource Lieutenant Colonel Steven Crowe, interviewed by Seth Revetta, was born in Valdese, NC in 1962. He attended Appalachian State University for Military Science and entered the Army as an officer and graduated from Airborne School. His first station was in South Korea. Mr. Crowe discusses his training, which also included Ranger School and some of the difficulties he faced as an officer. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project's audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. These materials are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Veterans Oral History Project, Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Subject The topic of the resource Crowe, Steven Veterans United States Interviews Language A language of the resource English Airborne School Appalachian State University Ranger School Steven Crowe United States Army Valdese NC