Part of the XVIIIth Airborne Corps' Staff Judge Advocate's office and stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Major Jeff Bovarnick joined the headquarters in Afghanistan halfway through their deployment - during which they were known as Combined...
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...
In command of 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry - part of the 11th Aviation Regiment - when the regiment launched its initial attacks in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel Michael Barbee, in this interview, recounts in remarkable detail the role...
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm "Mac" Martin, an electronics countermeasures officer for Navy EA-6B Prowlers, flew in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001 and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2004 and 2005. Martin was deployed aboard...
Assigned as the tactical command post officer in charge for 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Major William Kinsey deployed to Kuwait in September 2002 for Exercise Intrinsic Action but stayed on to participate in the major combat phase of...
When word came down in November 2004 that the 138th Signal Battalion's Alpha Company - part of the 38th Infantry Division, Indiana National Guard - was going to be sent to Iraq for a 2005-2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom,...
Lieutenant Commander Rick Timms served as the aircraft and mission commander onboard an EP-3 as part of a detachment from VQ-1 based out of Naval Support Activity Bahrain in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001. The US Navy had...
During 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines' march from Kuwait to Baghdad in the first weeks of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Stephen Van Riper served as both Weapons Company commander and as the battalion's fire support coordinator. Part of the 1st Marine...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier assigned to the 4-80th Chemical Training Battalion when he received orders sending him with the 80th Division (Institutional Training) on a military transition team (MiTT) to Sinjar, Iraq in 2005-2006, Sergeant First...
Lieutenant Colonel John Norris served as commander of 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, a newly formed Stryker unit, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005. He begins by talking about how enjoyable and challenging it was to stand up a...
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...
A Chemical Corps officer serving in Iraq from July through December 2003 with the 5th Special Forces Group - during this period existing as a combined joint special operations task force (CJSOTF) - Major Kenneth Jones was the director of the joint...
During the 224th Combat Engineer Battalion's January through December 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Jacobus served as this Iowa National Guard unit's commander. In this interview, he begins by...
From July 2004 through June 2005, Major Kip Korth served as the US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division's liaison officer to the 1st Infantry Division and then subsequently to the 42nd Infantry Division. His higher headquarters was Gulf...
Major Robin Lau, a National Guardsman from Hawaii, served on a military transition team (MiTT) in Salah ad Din Province from January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lau begins this interview by noting that the MiTT...
From September 2001 until June 2002, Major Stephen Howe served as a detachment commander in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and then, from July 2002 through December 2003, was the 2nd Battalion logistics officer. Following an Operation...
Commander Jeffrey Bernasconi, United States Navy, served as the main engines officer onboard the USS Germantown in 1991 in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and served as the auxiliaries officer onboard the USS Harry S. Truman...
Major Christopher Niesen served as an Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) advisor to the 29th Brigade, Hawaii National Guard in 2004 in support of a deployment to the Horn of Africa (HOA) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
Serving on the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (IGFC) from January 2006 through January 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Whitney was originally slated to be the C5 advisor. This, however, was an "ill-advised...
During the run-up and planning portions of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Redding served as the division transportation officer for the 101st Airborne Division and, as such, helped move the Screaming Eagles from Fort Campbell into...