Major Jason Sepanic served as the commander of Echo Company, 204th Forward Support Battalion, a medical company in the 4th Infantry Division, during Operation Iraqi Freedom I in 2003-2004. In this interview, he discusses his planning for the...
In this first of two interviews, Major Greg Parkins talks about commanding an operational detachment alpha in 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group conducting a foreign internal defense mission with the 1st Filipino Scout Ranger Battalion from...
Major Michael Borgel served as the assistant operations officer for the 384th Military Police Battalion at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from May 2003 through June 2004. Borgel was part of a Reserve unit when he was notified of...
Lieutenant Colonel Steve Landis was the executive officer of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from 10 January 2003 to 31 August 2003, and in this interview speaks of both the successes and challenges he experienced in Operation IRAQI...
Major Chris McMartin served as a C-130 navigator with the 745th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Qatar in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Prior to deployment, McMartin was an instructor navigator at Randolph Air Force Base. He was...
Major Chris McMartin served as the assistant director of operations with the 745th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Qatar in support of the Global War on Terrorism. McMartin deployed from June to August 2007 to fulfill more of a supervisory and...
A veteran of two deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Geoff Van Epps, in this two-part interview, discusses each of them, beginning with his July to December 2002 tour as part of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan,...
While working as the Phoenix, Arizona area commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Los Angeles District, Major James DeLapp deployed to Iraq and served from May to November 2004 as the operations officer for the Corps' Camp Victory...
From January 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Darren Keahtigh served as commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division - and was based variously in Baghdad...
From February through July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Ayo Lawson served as a plans officer with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. In this interview, he discusses his wartime support to the V Corps ADA element, his...
Major Joel Gilbert served as an infantry line company commander in the Alaska Army National Guard - the first combat unit in the Alaska Guard to go to a combat zone since World War II - and mobilized with the 29th Brigade from the Hawaii Army...
Major Jon Beale served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from December 2005 through December 2006. Beale reported to Fort Carson in November 2005 to begin predeployment training. After the movement and...
During his 2003-04 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Luis Oakley Jr. served initially as the intelligence officer for the 159th Aviation Brigade and then, in country, took over command of Delta Company, 311th Military...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Eric James discusses serving as the operations officer and intelligence officer on a military transition team in Taji, Iraq in 2006...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Major Matthew Dalton discusses serving as the chief on a military transition team in Abu Ghraib, Iraq from March 2006 through March 2007 in...
From April 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, CW3 Mark Brubeck (a CW2 at the time) served as the mobility warrant officer as part of HHC, 4th Infantry Division, in the Division Transportation Office. Brubeck was,...
Deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from March 2004 through February 2005, Colonel James C. McConville commanded the 1st Cavalry Division's 4th Aviation Brigade and, in this interview, focuses on his unit's participation in Operation...
Major David Wakefield served as an assistant S3 with 10th Special Forces Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April until July 2005. The battalion had deployed in January 2005 and Wakefield was deploying to replace another staff officer...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...