No. 767 Sarah LeMire, 2013

File — Box: 73, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Sarah LeMire (b. 1979) was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She studied English and Russian at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and graduated in 2001, enlisting in the Army in January 2002. LeMire, who held the Military Occupational Specialty of 98G, took her basic training at Fort Jackson, then studied Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, before attending further training at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, and at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She met her husband at the DLI and they married at Fort Hood, Texas, after she graduated. After a brief interval of garrison duty and Iraqi language training in Germany, LeMire deployed to Iraq in November 2005, with the 4th Infantry Division. She was stationed at Baghdad, doing language work. When she got back to the States in November 2006, LeMire left the Army and moved to her husband’s native Utah, where she received a master’s degree in English from the University of Utah. At the time of the interview she worked as a Research and Information Services Librarian at the University of Utah Marriott Library. LeMire discusses her attitudes toward the war, describes her experience as a female in the Army at some length, and shares how she coped with deployment both during and afterward.
Project: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans oral history project.
Interviewer: Becky B. Lloyd

Dates

2013

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