The 24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team Historical Reference Book represents a collection of selected planning documents, briefings, combat orders, intelligence assessments, and executive correspondence produced during the Desert Shield...
Roughly six months after assuming command of 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel James Rainey led his unit into Operation Phantom Fury, the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Attached to...
The leader of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, Task Force 2-2 Infantry during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Captain Jeff Emery was in charge of four Bradleys, two tanks and two dismounted squads during this decisive November 2004 urban fight to...
Many authors have begun to write that the heavy force has no role in the future contemporary operating environment – especially where internal political-militia groups rely on guerrilla tactics. The US heavy force is an integral part of...
In this interview, Major Matthew Archambault, US Army, Operations Officer, talks about his deployment to Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Archambault discusses his personal experience with pre-deployment training and the...
MAJ John Cherry served as the operations officer (S3) with the 2-395th Field Artillery (FA) battalion during 2004 and 2005 at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2008 interview, MAJ...
Coming from the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss, where he'd been an instructor, Major Michael Melito - during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - was assigned as an individual augmentee to 1st Battalion, 3rd Air...
The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany's blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved...
Major Stephen Shrader served as the HHC commander for 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry - part of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - from March 2003 to July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shrader first deployed from May 2002 to December...
From December 2001 through June 2003, Major Christopher Carter commanded Alpha Company, 3-7 Infantry. During this time, he deployed to Kuwait with his company, participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom beginning in March 2003 and, in this interview,...
In command of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment during Operation Phantom Fury - the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah - Captain Chris Brooke, in this interview, relates in great detail his...
At the time of Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Sergeant Major Peter Smith was serving as the first sergeant for Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment...
In command of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2-63 Armor - attached to Task Force 2-2 Infantry, specifically the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, for purposes of November 2004's Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr) - Captain Neil Prakash was in charge of two...
This study seeks to determine whether current tactics, techniques, and procedures for a heavy battalion task force conducting offensive operations in mountainous terrain are adequate. Many potential crisis spots where U.S. forces could deploy are...
Major Ronny Johnson deployed to Kuwait as the commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry to support Operation Desert Spring in October 2002. He thought he was taking his unit for six months, but all that changed when forces started...
In this interview MAJ Ben Miller discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2003 with the 1st BCT, 1st ID out of Fort Riley. MAJ Miller was a company commander of an armor platoon but when he arrived in Iraq his platoon was split up and received...
Conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, reference their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of 1st Armored Division, this group interview is with Staff Sergeant Ronald K. Banner, who was with 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry from April 2003 through...
Conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, reference their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of 1st Armored Division, this group interview is with Staff Sergeant Ronald K. Banner, who was with 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry from April 2003 through...
Conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, reference their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of 1st Armored Division, this group interview is with Staff Sergeant Ronald K. Banner, who was with 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry from April 2003 through...
Conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, reference their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of 1st Armored Division, this group interview is with Staff Sergeant Ronald K. Banner, who was with 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry from April 2003 through...