Major Rich Garey deployed as the assistant operations officer (S3) with the 75th Ranger Regiment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from August through November 2005. He participated in the operational planning, mission...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
Major Mike Swienton deployed to Iraq in July 2003 as the assistant S3 of the 5th Engineer Battalion out of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. At night he was the battle captain and by day he was the construction officer and Directorate of Public Works...
Major Chuck Palmer deployed to Iraq as commander of Charlie Company, 16th Signal Battalion in 2003. He found out on 31 March 2003 that he would be assuming command of Charlie Company on 3 April, only 15 days before leaving for Kuwait and Iraq. Once...
During the planning and major combat operations phases of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Russell Thaden was the deputy G2 for V Corps. Responsible for "ensuring that the entire staff was updated on the current intelligence situation" and for...
Major Chris Smith, an Australian Army officer, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from May to December 2006 as the operations officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), a light infantry battalion. In the months...
Major Andy Liffring was serving as the company commander for Alpha Company, 37th Engineers out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, when he was notified to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Liffring's predeployment training focused on...
Major Kerry Dennard served in the 82nd Division Artillery as the S4 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and deployed on 1 September 2003. During this deployment, Dennard was in charge of logistics and ensured the movement of equipment and...
Major Matthew Koehler redeployed in March 2004 from a deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and continued to serve as the assistant operations officer in the 4th Infantry Division's operations shop (G3). From March 2004 until June 2004,...
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Farquhar served as a military transition team (MiTT) leader from May 2007 until May 2008 to advise a brigade of the Iraqi 3rd Infantry Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Farquhar and his team completed...
From April to June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Peter Elstad deployed to Iraq with a Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) team as the information operations subject matter expert, focused on how the 4th Infantry and 101st...
Major Stephen Shrader served as the HHC commander for 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry - part of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - from March 2003 to July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shrader first deployed from May 2002 to December...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
In 2003, Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and Joint Munitions Command (JMC) - then a unified major subordinate command of Army Material Command - began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
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 operations officer for the 494th Military Police Battalion at Camp Cropper, the high-value detention facility, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2006 through September 2007. Borgel was a part of...
Major Matt Jordan, a member of the Arkansas National Guard, served as an Army fixed-wing pilot in Balad, Iraq, from November 2006 through November 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about preparing and deploying...