MAJ Curtis Perkins served as the assistant brigade logistics officer (S4) with 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (ID) and company commander of the 1-12 Infantry in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 and as operations officer (S3) with 4th Brigade,...
LT John Beagle was in the last two weeks of his Medical Service Officers Basic Course (MSOBC) when he received a call from his National Guard company commander. Beagle had been selected as a follow on mobilization filler for an Infantry battalion...
LCDR David Collis served as an operational logistics officer on the USS Key West during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), with Navy Central Command (NAVCENT) in Bahrain in 2007 and 2008 and as the logistics officer with a SEAL team...
MAJ Thomas Fuller served with the 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (SFG) in Kabul and Bagram, Afghanistan during 2002 and 2003, and with the 2nd Battalion, 20th SFG in Herat, Afghanistan during 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
In this interview MAJ Tage Rainsford discusses his deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in March 2004 with the 2-27th Infantry Regiment in the 3rd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division (ID). MAJ Rainsford...
For US Air Force Major Christine Locke and her fellow members of the 4411th Rescue Squadron, the Global War on Terrorism began not on September 11, 2001, but on June 25, 1996, when terrorists detonated a bomb at the Khobar Towers housing complex in...
Australian Army MAJ Matthew Patching served on a humanitarian aid mission in Pakistan during 2005 after the major earthquake that hit the Nheelum Valley region, in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2008 and in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan during 2010, both in...
MAJ Eric Melloh served as company commander for Alpha Company 1-30th and Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) 1-30th Infantry in Arab Jabour, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2010...
In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
MAJ Douglas Curtis served at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey during 2003 and as plans officer for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2007 and 2008, both in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2011...
Mr. Buck Newsom served in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1964. In this December 2011 interview, Mr. Newsom discusses his service during World War II in the Pacific theater, touching on the importance of security regulations as demonstrated by...
From October 2003 to April 2004, Major Douglas Schenck worked in the J5 at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. In his duty position as ground operations officer, Schenck dealt directly with Pacific Rim countries, such...
During her March 2003 to March 2004 deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as part of Combined Joint Task Force-76, Major Deitra Korando - an intelligence officer with the 25th Infantry Division - served initially as a battle major in...
Lieutenant Commander Stephen Weincko served onboard the USS John C. Stennis in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2002, again later as the mission commander of a P-3 flying out of Bahrain in 2005, and finally in support of Operation...
With the Army's Criminal Investigation Division as a shift operations officer when the 9/11 attacks occurred, Major J.D. Branch became part of the FBI's joint operations center for Pentagon recovery that was headquartered at the Pentagon itself and...
From July 2003 through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Waters served as the operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. In this interview, he...
Master Sergeant Alan Upchurch is currently assigned to the Office of the Chief of Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - first from February to June 2004 and then from November 2004 through April...
Assigned to the 1st Marine Division as an individual augmentee from Okinawa, Japan, Major Travis O'Selmo deployed to Ramadi, Iraq, from March through September 2004 to conduct civil-military operations in Al Anbar Province as part of a staff...
Major Chris Liermann, Quartermaster Corps, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2003 through June 2004. In response to a US Army Training and Doctrine Command requirement, he came from the Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee,...
A tactics instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia, when he received a tasking to lead an 11-man military transition team (MiTT) that would be responsible for advising an Iraqi light infantry battalion, Major David Voorhies deployed in February 2006 on...