MAJ James Fisher served with the Illinois National Guard in Saudi Arabia in 2000, in Iceland as part of Operation Northern Viking in 2001, and at the US Embassy in Poland as part of an Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) mission, all in support of...
MAJ Joshua Griffin served as the intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2012 interview, MAJ Griffin discusses his multi-hatted role...
In this interview, LTC Kevin B. Bucy relates his experiences as a Training Team leader and mentor deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from July 2008 to August 2009. LTC Bucy's team was assigned to mentor the 4th Kandak (Combat...
Tasked with contingency airbase defense during his first two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from August to December 2003 at Tallil Airbase, the second from May to October 2004 at Baghdad International Airport - US Air...
MAJ Randall Verde served as communications officer (S6) and battle captain with the 1-442 Infantry Regiment in Balad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 and as company commander with 1-148th Infantry in Kuwait and Iraq during 2008 and 2009, both in support...
In this interview, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Cathleen Van Bree relates her experiences as the Assistant S3 officer for the 219th Area Support Group (ASG) deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from January 2006 to February 2007. After...
In this April 2012 interview, Major General (MG) Joseph "Lonnie" Culver relates his experiences as a Brigadier General (BG) in command of Task Force (TF) Cyclone deployed in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from August 2009 to July...
In this December 2012 interview, MAJ AJ Besik, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Security Force Assistance advisor to the Afghan National Police in RC-North in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
In this January 2013 interview, CSM Brian Anderson, US Army National Guard, FA; discusses his deployment to Iraq as an NCOIC of the MNF-I badge office in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). CSM Anderson starts his...
Colonel Bruce Grant was the deputy commander of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Iraq from December 2005 through September 2006. Retired when Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced, Grant "felt a sense of duty" to return to active service and...
About to join the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - "the most deployed unit within special operations" - it came as little surprise to Major Ben Sunds that, following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, "their...
Colonel Robert Catalanotti, serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), was the mobilization commander at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from September through December 2004 and then the base commander at Taji, Iraq, from December 2004...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
Captain William Rockefeller was the commander of Bravo Company, 1-26 Infantry during the Easter Sunday Battle of Samarra in April 2004. Stationed at FOB Brassfield-Mora, Rockefeller describes the actions of his company upon hearing that Charlie...
Major General John P. McLaren Jr., formerly the assistant division commander for operations for the 80th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 as commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group. Replacing the 98th Division as...
As a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and commander of ODA 324, Major Chris Wells played a lead role in the July 2005 battle of Siah Chow, fought in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province. Having its genesis in the suspected...
The acclaimed author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (2005), Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl served as the operations officer for Task Force 1-34 Armor - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st...
At the time of this interview the commander of 3rd Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training) - a Reserve unit headquartered in Rochester, New York - Colonel Lawrence J. Kelly played a key role in the 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advisory...
Currently the chief of force generation at Fort Leavenworth's Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance, Colonel Sean Ryan, in mid 2004, was "brought in … to assist Brigadier General Richard Sherlock" - assistant division commander...
Having enlisted in the US Army back in 1994 at the age of 33, Captain Lisa Bloom - a licensed and practicing attorney living in Iowa at the time - later became a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division and, after graduating from the...