In this October of 2012 interview, MAJ Chris Vitale, US Army, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 10th Mountain Division in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
Major Lawrence Shepherd, battle captain and later battle major for the Third Army, served as a ground operations officer with Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) during his deployment in Kuwait (from October 2003 to April 2004) and Iraq...
MAJ Ryan Matheson served with the Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) mission on the Sinai Peninsula during 2000, in Baghdad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 in...
MAJ William Brown has been on four deployments in support of Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this August 2012 interview, MAJ William Brown, US Army, Infantry; discusses his third deployment experience to Iraq as a company commander for Alpha...
Major Matthew Cox served as company executive officer (XO) in Al Anbar Province, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 and on a military transition team (MiTT) in Tuz Kuhrmatu during 2007 and 2008, both in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this...
Roughly a month after taking command of Bravo Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Tactical Exploitation System) in November 2002, Major Art La Flamme received his deployment order and, by January, was at Ahmed Al Jaber Airbase in Kuwait...
In this November 2012 interview, MAJ Frank Castro, US Army, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Castro talks about his pre-deployment training and...
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Blaise Cornell-d'Echert was involved in the initial creation of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) in Iraq starting in July 2003. In this interview, he talks about how the initial structuring of the...
In this interview geared towards analyzing and better understanding the battlefield relationships between US conventional and special operations forces, Colonel Mark Neuse, a civil affairs (CA) officer, shares insights gleaned from his extensive...
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,...
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...
At the time of this interview the division budget officer for the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Paul Loncle - during his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - served as an officer education system (OES)...
Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
Conducted during a February 2007 trip they made to the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth in order to keep themselves "abreast of the latest doctrinal changes" and acquire the latest information and tools in order to continue professionally...
Conducted during a February 2007 trip they made to the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth in order to keep themselves "abreast of the latest doctrinal changes" and acquire the latest information and tools in order to continue professionally...
Called up in May 2005 and given a June report date for predeployment training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Maryland-based US Army reservist Captain Christopher Isgrig became cross-leveled into the 80th Division (Institutional Training) and joined...
Assigned to the 526th Forward Support Battalion, Major Joseph Morrow, a battalion operations officer, helped support the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul. Stand-out memories included a 22-hour convoy drive, the attacks on Mosul...
First Lieutenant Jeremy Burke, a reservist from the 80th Division (Institutional Training), served on a military transition team (MiTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Normally a company executive officer acting as a company commander, he...
An Iowa National Guardsman, First Sergeant Christopher Fox was mobilized in February 2003 for service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, went through predeployment training at the Fort McCoy, Wisconsin mobilization station, and then in April arrived in...
Principally working on the joint operations center bridge in Bagram, Afghanistan, during his March 2004 to March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Joseph Rawlings served as the CJ4 battle captain for Combined Joint...