The operations officer for Echo Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Major Garret Messner deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) in January 2002 for a six-month tour. Beyond the difficulties associated...
Major Glenn Mellor deployed to Iraq as signal company commander for 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in October 2003. They moved to Mosul where they replaced the 101st Airborne Division. It was a rough RIP/TOA as their brigade of 5,000...
Major Chad Ward served with the 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry from September 2002 until January 2003, at which time he took over as the 11th Regiment liaison officer (LNO) planner and worked in the fires and effect cell (FEC) during Operation Iraqi...
A former medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and a Special Forces qualified medical sergeant, Captain Gregory McCrum was commissioned in May 2002 after graduating from the inter-service physician assistant (PA) program at Fort Sam Houston....
From January through December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major David Mendelson served as the officer in charge of administrative law for Multinational Corps-Iraq (MNC-I). In this interview, he discusses the full range of his legal...
From March 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Baer commanded the 369th Transportation Company, US Army Reserve - a palletized load system (PLS) unit based in Wichita, Kansas, that ended up being cross-leveled...
MAJ Gary Means served as a flight surgeon with the 82nd Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade in Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this February 2010 interview, MAJ Means discusses his unit's...
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...