In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
This interview with Army reservist Lieutenant Colonel John C. Curwen, formerly the commander of 2nd Battalion, 304th Regiment, part of 1st Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training), deals with his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation...
A reservist serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Antonio L. Morales was mobilized and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005. Normally assigned as a schools officer with the...
During the 2004-2005 deployment to Iraq of roughly 700 soldiers from the 98th Division (Institutional Training) for the Iraqi security forces training and advisory mission, Lieutenant Colonel Richard F. Monczynski served as officer in charge of the...
In this interview MAJ Steve Calder discusses his deployment as part of a 26-man team from the Utah National Guard into Iraq to work with CFLCC as a LNO to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense (K-MOD). MAJ Calder describes the challenges he faced in the...
An Army reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Friedman served as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team command and control cell's operations officer in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview,...
Major Roger Swartwood, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as the leader of a battalion advisor support team (AST) to the new Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. He begins this interview by discussing the predeployment training...
A follow-up interview to the one conducted on 4 November 2004 concerning Colonel (Ret.) Bradford Parsons' involvement in the 98th Division's 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advising mission, this one, as the interviewer put it, focuses more on...
Upon arriving in theater in November 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Christian of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) was under the impression that he was to be the officer in charge of developing and standing up an engineer school for the...
The division plans officer up until the actual mobilization of elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) - which, in 2004-2005, would assume the Iraqi Army training and advisory mission - Lieutenant Colonel James DiRisio, after...
Colonel Robert Catalanotti, serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), was the mobilization commander at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from September through December 2004 and then the base commander at Taji, Iraq, from December 2004...
Major Jeff Tennyson, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor to the New Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. Tennyson's unit, an engineer company, was already mobilized at Fort Leonard Wood when he found out they would...
Currently the chief of force generation at Fort Leavenworth's Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance, Colonel Sean Ryan, in mid 2004, was "brought in … to assist Brigadier General Richard Sherlock" - assistant division commander...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Scott McConnell served as the G3 advisor to the 5th Iraqi Army Division in 2004-2005. In this interview, he begins by describing the predeployment training at Camp Atterbury,...
Colonel Jody Daniels, a reservist who served formerly with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq as a member of that division's survey team, and later became the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq joint staff...