Colonel (Ret.) Scott Thein served in Iraq from September 2003 through March 2004 as the Division Artillery commander with the 82nd Airborne. He worked primarily at the provincial level and his area of operations was Al Anbar Province. One of the...
Colonel David C. Martino was the division artillery (DIVARTY) commander for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq from July 2003 until February 2004. During this time, the DIVARTY was primarily responsible under the Army of...
Captain Warren Sponsler, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-64 Armor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division began his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment in September 2002 when he arrived in Kuwait. He then crossed into...
Colonel Thomas Torrance was the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division Artillery (DIVARTY) from June of 2002 until the end of May 2004, and was in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 20 March 2003 to July 2003. He was predominantly located in the tactical...
From February 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Calvert served as the operations officer for 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "We essentially owned the entire Al Anbar Province," he said, an area...
From February 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Calvert served as the operations officer for 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "We essentially owned the entire Al Anbar Province," he said, an area...
Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Sanborn was a major when deployed to Iraq and served at the Division Artillery operations officer for the 82nd Airborne Division from September 2003 through March 2004. His unit was uncertain as to what their mission...
Major Brian Pearl was a battalion operations officer and later the operations officer for the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. After deploying to Iraq in March of 2003, he was located in Al Kifl, An Najaf, Karbala, Iskandariyah, Baghdad, Al...
In this third of three interviews, Major Greg Ford talks about serving as the intelligence officer for 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in the Kirkuk region of Iraq in 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. An initial problem...
In this first of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Greg Ford relates his experiences serving as the intelligence officer of 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry in Jacobabad, Pakistan, and Paktia Province,...
Almost 20 years after Major Randy Jimenez joined the Army, he was the one enlisting recruits-the toughest, most frustrating job of his career. In July 2003, Jimenez accepted command of a 30-member recruiting company. For two years, he and his staff...
Colonel Dyfierd Harris commanded 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom from July 2003 until July 2004. This brigade - the division's aviation brigade - had operational responsibilities throughout the division's area of...
Mrs. Ann Soby led a family readiness group (FRG) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the Global War on Terrorism. These groups support families of Active and Reserve Component soldiers as well as the National Guard. The transition to an operational...
Lieutenant Colonel Troy Perry deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the operations officer (S3) for 1-68 Armor Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and later became the brigade S3. In this interview, Perry...
In command of the 7th Transportation Battalion for 11 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II beginning in January 2004, Lieutenant Colonel George Akin was an Active Component commander working under a Reserve Component corps support...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Major Chris Shields served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an assistant effects coordinator in the 3rd Infantry Division's fires and effect cell, in which he oversaw and managed all counterfire...
The assistant supply officer (S4) for 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003, Major Karl Knapp was "in charge of basically coordinating everything for the S4 shop between the battalions and any...
Major Shawn Schuldt, a quartermaster officer, commanded the Headquarters Main Support Company, 528th Special Operations Support Battalion, from December 2001 through June 2003, and during this time served around Kirkuk in support of Operation Iraqi...
Major Timothy Payment served initially as the Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment commander - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division - then took over Headquarters and Headquarters Company mid-tour during his May 2003 to July 2004...
Major Scott Riley, in this first of two interviews, talks about his service as the intelligence officer for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq from March through May of 2003 in support of Operation...