| Title: |
Stephen Earle Buyer
|
| Local code: |
AFC/2001/001/2151
|
| Document type: |
Oral history
|
| Accessibility: |
Free Only
|
| Repository: |
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
|
| Collection: |
Veterans History Project
|
| Description: |
In the fall of 1990, U.S. Representative Buyer was called to active duty on three days notice to participate in OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. As an Operational Law Judge Advocate, Buyer provided legal advice to forward-deployed service units in the combat zone. He also provided advice to the Western Enemy Prisoner of War Camp regarding the Geneva Convention related to the treatment of POW's and refugees.
|
| Original Language: |
English
|
| Video: |
[Video available]
|
| Speaker: |
Buyer, Stephen Earle, 1958-
|
| Speaker gender: |
Male
|
| Speaker date of birth: |
26-Nov-1958
|
| Speaker place of birth: |
Rensselaer, IN; Indiana; United States; North America
|
| Speaker race: |
White
|
| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
|
| Document date: |
Undated
|
| Interviewer: |
Taylor, David A.
|
| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Army
|
| Historical events discussed: |
Persian Gulf War, 1991
|
| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Iraq; Kuwait; Middle East; North America; Saudi Arabia; United States
|
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Iraq; Kuwait; Middle East; North America; Oral history; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American; Persian Gulf War, 1991--Veterans; Saudi Arabia; U.S. Army; United States; United States--Armed Forces
|
| ASP release: |
2005-06
|
| Document code: |
OHI0031639-34809
|
