Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Iraq for his second tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) in September 2006. He reported first to Fort Riley, Kansas, to undergo immersion training at FOB Victory,...
Serving as the intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT) in Iraq from January 2005 through January 2006, Major David Longbine was involved in the teaching, coaching and mentoring of the 1st Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division's...
In this third of three interviews, Major Tom Chalkley, US Marine Corps, discusses his deployment to Habbaniyah, Iraq, as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) throughout 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Chalkley's team was...
During his May 2005 through May 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeffrey O'Sadnick served as the joint staff logistics officer (J4) forward for the Iraqi Assistance Group (IAG). Based at Taji where the Phoenix Academy...
MAJ Matthew McGrew served as team chief on a military transition team (MiTT) advising the 46th Iraqi Army (IA) Brigade during 2008 and 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In his second interview in February 2010, MAJ...
From December 2005 through December 2006, Major Tony Nichols served as the military transition team (MiTT) leader assigned to coach, teach and mentor two different Iraqi Army units: initially the 1st Iraqi Division Motor Transport Regiment and...
Major Timothy O'Brien served in Operation Iraqi Freedom with a military transition team (MiTT) in 2005-06. Part of a worldwide levy of US Army manpower to support MiTTs, O'Brien came from Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Ranger Training Brigade. He...
Called up in May 2005 and given a June report date for predeployment training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Maryland-based US Army reservist Captain Christopher Isgrig became cross-leveled into the 80th Division (Institutional Training) and joined...
At the time of this interview the division budget officer for the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Paul Loncle - during his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - served as an officer education system (OES)...
From May 2003 to June 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Timothy Connelly served initially (and briefly) as the 317th Military Police Battalion signal officer and then for the remainder of his tour commanded the 351st MP Company,...
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...
In this second of two interviews, Major Latassha Moore talks about serving as the chief of a military transition team for the Iraqi’s 4th Motorized Transportation Regiment in Kirkuk, Iraq from June 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation...
MAJ Michael Mulllins served as military transition team (MiTT) executive officer (XO) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2011 interview, MAJ Mullins discusses the makeup and role of a...
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...
Major Bobby Haskin served as the battle major for 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division and as the chief of operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2005 to November 2006. Haskin was in an ROTC assignment teaching at Western...
MAJ Daniel Grieve served as fire support officer (FSO) with the 3-505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) in Kandahar, Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno, FOB Orgun-E and FOB Khost, Afghanistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
A US Army Reserve quartermaster officer assigned to 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment - an institutional training unit headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia - First Lieutenant Mitchell Wander was mobilized in May 2005, assigned to the 80th...
Major Lanny Mihelich, Transportation Corps, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military transition team (MiTT) member in mid-2006. Predeployment training at Fort Riley, Kansas, took place as the 1st Infantry Division returned from OCONUS,...
In this first of two interviews, Major Mark Huhtanen talks about serving as the logistics officer and assistant operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry in Mosul and Baghdad, Iraq, from August 2005 through November 2006 in support of...
In this interview, Major Christopher Longo, US Army, Company Commander, talks about his deployment to Iraq as a part of a Military Transition Team (MiTT) in March 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Longo discusses his personal...