In this interview MAJ James Edwards discusses his 14-month deployment to Iraq and Balad Air Base. Initially serving as the brigade chemical officer at the 12th Aviation Brigade, MAJ Edwards was given the opportunity to command the Headquarters and...
In this interview MAJ Roy Saravia discusses his 15-month deployment to Iraq in 2007 as a company commander for Echo Company, 307th Brigade Support battalion (BSB) attached to the 1-504th Infantry. His company served as the logistics element for...
In this interview, 1Lt Bernadette Collins, US Army, AG, discusses her deployment to Iraq as a Adjutant General Branch Officer in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). 1LT Collins discusses in detail the pre-mobilization actions she and...
In command of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment during Operation Phantom Fury - the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah - Captain Chris Brooke, in this interview, relates in great detail his...
In this interview, MAJ Bridgette Simmons, US Army, Signal Corps, discusses her deployment to Iraq as the liaison officer (LNO) of the joint operation center (JOC) in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Simmons describes what a...
MAJ Jorge Dolmo served as the ammunition planner for US Army Central Command (ARCENT) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait during 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this August 2010 interview, MAJ Dolmo...
MAJ Christopher L'Heureux served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) as assistant personnel officer (S1) and company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010...
In this interview MAJ David Hansen, Military Intelligence (MI) officer, discusses his deployment to Iraq in support of the Extra Judicial Killings (EJK) Task Force in 2006. MAJ Hansen deployed as an individual augmentee to serve as the liaison...
1LT Donnelly details the Air Mission Set (AMS) building process used by the 38th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Donnelly relates the AMS process as not doctrinal, nor taught in school, and akin to "solving...
In support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Peter "Duke" DeLuca commanded the 101st Airborne Division's 326th Engineer Battalion during the major combat phase and then, from June 2004 through June 2005, served as the J7 engineer for Lieutenant...
MAJ Timothy Jaeger served as a Military Transition Team (MiTT) chief with the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at Multi-National Division - North (MND-N) and Tallil, Iraq during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this...
In this interview, MAJ Jeffrey Rosenberg, US Army, Aviation, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a troop commander in 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Rosenberg discusses his experience with flying while in country. ...
In this interview CPT Parker relates how he (as a UH60 rotary wing pilot) completed the Fixed Wing aircraft transition course in August 2009 in time to assume command of his company just prior to mobilization. During the pre-mobilization train up,...
MAJ Terrance Latson served as the battalion logistics officer (S4) with the 2nd Forward Support Battalion (FSB) of the 2nd Infantry Division (ID) in 2004 and 2005 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) TQ, and as company commander of the 226th...
A recent addition to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment as the onset of Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr) neared, Captain Christopher Lacour served as the assistant fire support officer during this decisive November 2004 urban fight to retake the...
CH (MAJ) Robert Allman served as battalion chaplain with the 10th Transportation Battalion in Kuwait during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2010 interview, MAJ Allman discusses how he got past his own personal...
In command of Alpha Company, 1-64 Armor - part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - during both Operation Desert Spring in Kuwait (March to September 2002) and then Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 until he relinquished command in...
MAJ Donald Johnson served as the assistant operations officer (S3) and a military advisor to the Iraqi Army (IA) in Tikrit, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 and as company commander in West Rashid, Iraq during 2007 and 2008, both in support of Operation...
A team leader with the 96th Civil Affairs (CA) Battalion, Major Larry Dewey and his four-man team were attached to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group from February to May 2003 and conducted civil-military operations in northern...
During his November 2004 to November 2005 deployment to Iraq, Staff Sergeant Timothy F. Nein served as the leader of 2nd Squad, 4th Platoon, 617th Military Police Company - a Kentucky National Guard unit - and, in this interview, gives a complete...