From May 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Stephen Boesen served variously as the chief of three different embedded training teams (ETTs) within 1st Brigade, 203rd Afghan Regional Security Integrated...
A former presidential correspondence writer in the White House of President George W. Bush while serving in the US Army Reserves, Major Matthew Yandura spent his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom initially as a plans...
In this interview, Major Sam Cates, British Army, Infantry Officer, talks about his deployment to Basrah, Iraq in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Cates discusses his personal experience with deployment as he expresses his thoughts...
MAJ Juan Nava served as the joint intelligence officer and joint operations officer on a transition team during 2005 and 2006 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Loyalty in Baghdad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2009...
In Iraq from April to September 2004, Major Neal Croft of the British Army served as the operations officer for 1st Mechanized Brigade, a subordinate element of Multinational Division-Southeast. Based in Saddam Hussein's former palace in Basra City...
MAJ Lynda Gerhart served as a military intelligence (MI) officer and headquarters commander of 15th MI Battalion, Aerial Exploitation in Balad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this December 2009 interview,...
In this interview, MAJ Thomas Harris, US Army, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a Battalion National Police Transition Team Chief in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Harris describes a typical day, and how he was...
In this interview MAJ Walker discusses her deployment as the brigade automation officer for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (BCT) out of Fort Stewart, Georgia in 2005. MAJ Walker had a challenge because with a very limited staff of soldiers she had to...
LTC Kruse deployed as the Commander of Task Force (TF) 2-238th General Support Aviation Battalion to Camp Buehring, Kuwait. LTC Kruse discusses at length the disadvantages of a separate Aviation Task Force working directly for the Combined Forces...
CPT Raychad Vannatta served as company commander of Bravo Company, 1-137th Aviation Regiment at Joint Base Balad (JBB), Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this December 2009 interview, CPT Vannatta discusses...
MAJ Thomas Whipple served as the movement control team (MCT) leader with the 53rd Transportation Brigade in Kuwait and Tallil Air Base, Iraq during 2003 and as forward support company (FSC) commander for 2-227th Aviation in Taji, Iraq during 2006...
At the time of Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Sergeant Major Peter Smith was serving as the first sergeant for Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment...
In his interview, CPT Beagle describes his role as a Medical Operations officer for a Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) headquarters. Beagle relates the challenges of reducing the clinic from a 24-hour operation to limited duty hours due to the...
In this interview, COL (Ret.) Russell Thaden, US Army, Military Intelligence (MI); discusses his deployment to Iraq as the deputy Multi-national Force-Iraq (MNF-I) joint intelligence officer (J2) in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
Unable to deploy with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - due to an illness when the unit went to Iraq in early 2004, Major Doug Walter eventually rejoined his comrades in country in July and became...
The leader of 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, Task Force 2-2 Infantry in Fallujah during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Staff Sergeant David Bellavia was recommended for the Medal of Honor, nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Command Sergeant Major Gabriel Berhane served as the CSM for Colonel Joseph DiSalvo's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division whose roughly 4.5 million inhabitant-strong area of operations consisted of...
During the initial ground invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Will Johnson commanded the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB) of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, until he...
Major John Casper was the operations officer for Task Force 1-26 Infantry during the Easter Sunday Battle of Samarra in April 2004. Casper describes the background of the battle, including the challenges of supervising a Shi'a religious festival in...
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...