My field artillery unit was mobilized to perform a non-standard military police mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The unit was part of the largest National Guard mobilization from our state since the Vietnam era. The challenges of...
Stability operations are not a recent phenomenon, but have been particularly common since the end of the Cold War. All the major deployments of the US Army since 1991 have involved such operations. In all these deployments, the US Army has been...
The United States Army began transformation to meet the needs of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Senior leaders within the military initiated the transformation from a division-based organization to one built around brigades. This...
ABSTRACT-This is a paper concerning the federal activation of the 2-162 IN battalion out of Oregon, their mobilization experience, deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, the redeployment back to Conus and Oregon, and the...
While assigned to the 15th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, our mission, was to sustain the 2BCT twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The unit alone would perform over one-hundred sixty wheeled re-supply...
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a preemptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation 's influence. How the UN...
Fulfilling the duties and responsibilities as a Headquarters and Headquarters First Sergeant before, during, and after a major deployment is not an easy task. You have to ensure that you’re Leaders, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Soldiers...
First Sergeant duty is one of the greatest honors and privileges a Noncommissioned Officer can do during a career. It’s even more special when leading Soldiers during wartime operations. Looking into the faces of Soldiers who are looking back...
This annual report from the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office contains the following information: plans and policy; research and analysis (Southeast and Northeast Asia); Joint Commission support; operations and personnel recovery; outreach...
The 22d Mobile Public Affairs Detachment deployed to Iraq December 2004 to November 2005 to provide public affairs support to Task Force Liberty in north-central Iraq. The detachment conducted missions throughout its area of operations to collect...
The 350th Civil Affairs Command, G6 section and its subordinate units serve a unique mission within the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Physiological Operations community. They assist the U.S. government interagency with procedures for national or...
In this paper I will discuss some of the training events during our mobilization and preparing for our deployment to Baghdad, Iraq. I will cover some of the training that was presented to a Command and Control (C-2) medical unit and the lessons...
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....
Phase I: Learning the job. We were the first O6 command to run COB Taji and assumed Garrison Command responsibilities. The unit we replaced was an O5 commanded Mayor Cell. They were subordinate to the tenant Sustainment Brigade. My predecessor did...
The 642nd Engineer Company, 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division participated in
Operation Iraqi Freedom 1 (OIF) from March 2003 to March 2004. The 642nd Engineer
Company’s wartime mission was seizure, clearance and repair of selected...
This paper will introduce to you the sequence of events that took the 659TH Forward Support Company to Afghanistan and then to Saudi Arabia in route to Iraq, in order to support Special Operations Units. This unit was able to change their day to...
This paper will briefly express what happen with the 68th Transportation Company, during the deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom 05-07. You will find out which units the organization was attached to, certain combat missions, and lesson learned...
Operation Desert Storm was fought with an immature counter-TBM weapons system, without joint or service AMD doctrine, and without the benefit of joint training. Twelve years later Army AMD forces took to the battlefield once again as part of a...
Why has an S2 never won a wargame when playing predicted enemy courses of action against a friendly course of action during the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)? Why did the V Corps commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) respond to...
On September 3, 2004, the 98th Division (Institutional Training) received mobilization orders for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and deployed more than 700 of its troops starting in late October 2004, over a period of two months. Conceptualized as the...