In this first of four interviews, Major J.T. Torrain talks about serving as the assistant operations officer for the 16th Engineer Battalion, and commanding the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the same battalion, in Kuwait and Baghdad,...
In this third of four interviews, Major J.T. Torrain talks about serving as the team chief for a military transition team in Taji and Samarra, Iraq, from May 2006 through April 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses how much he...
In this first of three interviews, Major Zach Buettner talks about serving as the operations officer for the 68th Corps Support Group at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, from January through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses...
In this third of three interviews, Major Zach Buettner talks about serving as the logistics officer for Combined Joint Task Force Troy on Victory Base, Iraq, from November 2006 through February 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
In 2004-2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Stephen Rhudy served with the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Gulf Region Central District in Iraq as the liaison to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, and was also in charge of a resident...
Beginning in June 2007, Major Stephen Rhudy served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief tasked to coach, teach and mentor an almost all-Kurdish Iraqi Army battalion. In this interview, he discusses the disappointing predeployment training his...
During his 2007-2008 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeremy Jelly served as the executive officer on a military transition team (MiTT) tasked with coaching, teaching and mentoring the 5th Iraqi Army Division. In this...
An artillery battery commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom I in 2003, Major Jeremy Jelly, in this interview, discusses major combat operations his unit fired in support of, including the clearance of An Najaf, Kifl and Hillah; how his soldiers...
In this first of two interviews, Major Joseph Edwards talks about serving as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery and as a liaison officer for the 3rd Infantry Division to the 101st Airborne Division from Kuwait...
In this second of two interviews, Major Joseph Edwards talks about commanding Forward Support Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery in Ba’qubah, Iraq, from January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
In February 2003, Major Chris Hockenberry deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a brigade battle captain with the 82nd Airborne Division. In this interview, he discusses the ground assault convoy from Kuwait into Iraq, the challenge...
In this third of four interviews, Major Ramiro Santoyo, United States Air Force, talks about serving as the chief of weapons and tactics for the 755th Operations Support Squadron in Baghdad, Iraq, from March through June 2007 in support of...