The Army is built on values and doing what is right without supervision. The events that occurred with the 800th Military Police Brigade in late 2003 and made public in May of 2004 at Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Central Confinement...
A key requirement of military forces following major hostilities is to reestablish security. Lasting security can only be achieved with the restoration of civil authority, the reestablishment of the rule of law, and the institutions that uphold the...
Major Michael Barger, in this first of two interviews, talks about serving as the operations officer for the 13th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion in Kuwait and Iraq from February through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....
The personal history of MSG James E. Smetana being attached to the 998th QM Co. as a platoon sergeant of the Petroleum Oils and Lubricants (POL) Platoon, during Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. This history covers the time period...
During Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I (OIF I), U.S. soldiers waged a desperate war against a growing insurgency. Mounting U.S. casualties became the catalyst for a hidden "war within the war." Arrayed on one side of this secret conflict were leaders who...
Major Jose Martinez, a quartermaster officer, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the commander of the 202nd Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of the 559thQuartermaster Battalion-the only active duty water purification...
Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, did the 3 nnd Military Police (MP) Company lack the proper training or was the unauthorized treatment of detainees tolerated? The questions create implications, but who is the implicated; the jr. enlisted, jr....
The purpose of this monograph is to illuminate the role in, and support to, operational art by military police brigades and demonstrate their viability as a bridging mechanism to the operating concepts of wide area security and combined arms...
The United States led troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are challenged with many ethical questions. Do we treating foreign citizens and enemy combatant ethically? "As military professionals, it is important that we take time to reflect on the values...
Senior leaders are confronted with the ethical decision of sending untrained, improperly equipped, and organized units to perform missions that they are not trained for. Then went thing went wrong, junior Soldiers are the one blamed for their...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
It is important for all leaders, officers, non-commissioned officers to analyze the cause and effects of the actions of the NCO Corps from the Vietnam War to Desert Shield/Storm and to include all current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will...
Deploying any unit to war is a challenge; but doing it in a Battalion Headquarters Headquarters Company (HHC) under poor leadership is even harder. As First Sergeant (1 SG) I had a unique perspective of the impact poor leadership has on a unit....
I served as the first sergeant for HHC, 320th Military Police Battalion in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and March 13, 2003 to November 20, 2003. Our mission was to provide processing and detainment facilities for prisoners of war and...
The 812th Military Police Company was mobilized on the 7th of February 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I. The goal is to follow this mobilization process from an Active Army noncommissioned officer perspective. This will include the unit...
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Elizabeth Rogers served as the operations officer for the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion at Camp Cropper, Iraq, from May 2003 through July 2004 in support of Operation Iraq Freedom. In this interview, she talks...
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...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Captain Amos Nelson of the Iowa National Guard was in command of the 186th Military Police Company. In this interview, he discusses the predeployment training his unit received...
This is an account of the North Vietnamese attempts to seize control of the provinces Quang Tri and Thua Thien and of the response of the Free World Military Assistance Forces. The period covered by the narrative is from the spring of 1966 to the...