Overby began his law enforcement career in the U. Army, serving in Vietnam then later working for Mt. Marshal Service. Beginning his career in the U. Marshal Service in the Sioux City, Iowa office in , eventually moving to the Rapid City office in to begin missile escort duty. He recounts the basic duties and experiences he had over the year that he assisted the U. Air Force in transporting missiles through South Dakota.
He later moved up through the ranks of the U. Overby was interviewed for the park's oral history program in January Below are several excerpts from his interview. In , right after graduating from high school, I went into the United States Army.
I volunteered for a two-year enlistment that included volunteering for Vietnam. While there, I was eventually transferred from the infantry to the military police, which is where I obtained my interest in law enforcement.
I came back to the United States in August of , went to Fort Knox, Kentucky, and was there until March as a military policeman. Then I obtained a position as a park technician at Mt. I served at Mt. Rushmore as a law enforcement firefighter park ranger from to I then wanted to get more experience in law enforcement, so I obtained an appointment as a Pennington County Deputy Sheriff in Rapid City, South Dakota, and I worked for Sheriff Mel Larson in patrol for two years, and then school liaison, you know, juvenile delinquency type investigations for two years.
That was, of course, after spending almost a year and a half of a process of taking an examination and going through interviews, and so forth. Marshal's office for the northern district of Iowa in June I worked that assignment until May , at which time I obtained a lateral transfer as a Deputy U. Marshal to the Pierre U. Marshal's office, and I served under Deputy U. Marshal in charge, Steve Turchek. So in , when an opening came up in the Deputy U. That would have been in the summer of Marshal's office in Rapid City.
