MAJ Paul Culberson served as the engineer planner with the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, Iraq during 2003and 2004 and as headquarters and headquarters company commander of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in Tikrit, Iraq during 2005 and...
Colonel Mark Hurley was division support command (DISCOM) commander for the 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 10 March 2004 until 9 March 2005, located in Taji about 30 miles north of Baghdad. Prior to deploying, Hurley had...
Dr. Joseph J. Collins is a professor of national security strategy at the National War College. He previously served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations from July 2001 through July 2004, under the George W. Bush...
In this interview, MAJ (Ret) Paul Conway, US Army, Infantry; discusses his voluntary deployment to Iraq as part of the National Police Transition Team in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Conway shares why he chose...
From February 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Calvert served as the operations officer for 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "We essentially owned the entire Al Anbar Province," he said, an area...
Colonel Ralph Baker currently serves as division chief (J5) for the Middle East on the Pentagon Joint Staff. During the ground war phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, he was in charge of the V Corps tactical command post and subsequently took...
Driven by his desire to be deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan, and believing that his Connecticut National Guard unit would not be sent, in late 2004 Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ciesinski got himself transferred to the US Army Reserve's 80th...
Lieutenant Colonel Shane Lee served as the executive officer of 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment - part of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division - in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April to July 2003. In this interview, he...
As the communications subject matter expert for the Rapid Equipping Force in support of both Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Paul Craft - formerly of the Army Signal Center - was responsible for procuring "any new gear that was...
Master Sergeant Luis Jackson Jr. currently works in the Office of the Chief of Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 through February 2005 first as the scout platoon sergeant, Headquarters and...
Lieutenant Colonel John Bullion is the branch chief of the Policy and Forces Section, G3, Special Operations Division, in the Army Operations Center in the Pentagon. He was not in Iraq during On Point II's timeframe, but did serve as deputy team...