In this first of two interviews, Major Jeffrey Holmes discusses his deployment to Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba, as the training officer with the 300th Military Police (MP) Brigade from November 2002 through September 2003 in support of the Global...
Major Jeffrey Holmes, in this second of two interviews, talks about his deployment as a battle captain for Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I) detainee operations, also known as Task Force (TF) 134, at Victory Base, Iraq, from August 2004 through...
This final interview of four with US Army Special Forces Major Jack Noyes regarding his Global War on Terrorism deployments covers, in part, his January through December 2006 service with the US Embassy in Bangladesh, which he calls "one of my most...
Serving variously as an operations planner and a company commander with 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Major James Work deployed six times between 2002 and 2005, three in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and three in support of IRAQI...
The following is part one of a three-part interview with Major Jim McDermott, during the totality of which he discusses his two Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments - the first in 2003 as commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry,...
In this second of three interviews, Major Patrick Pascall discusses his deployment as an operations officer and team leader for the 49th Civil Affairs Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq, from January through November 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...
From September 2005 to August 2006, Major Walter Roberson served as executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT) assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade of the 1st Iraqi Army Division - at the time a tier-one unit that was operating on its...
Following his March to June 2002 deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - where he served as operations officer of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, which had responsibility for external security and detainee transfers at Camps X-Ray and Delta -...
Major Larry Burris commanded Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division during the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Commanding for 22 months, Burris deployed his company to Kuwait attached to 1st...
Major Mark Gillespie served as the assistant team leader on a military transition team (MiTT) around Baghdad from May 2005 through June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the focus of predeployment...
Major Corey Crosbie was an observer-controller at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, when a US Army Europe (USAEUR) request for volunteers drew his attention in November 2005. An armor officer, he joined a team headed for...
From May through October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Grice commanded the 68th Chemical Company, part of 4th Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division. In this interview, Grice discusses his company's control of an NGO...
Ms. Stephanie Miley returned to Iraq to lead a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in April 2006. A Foreign Service officer, economic officer and volunteer for duty in Iraq, Miley had previously served in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA),...
Major Richard Hetherington served as a liaison officer (LNO) between the Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC), the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense (MoD), and the American Embassy in Kuwait from August 2002 through August 2003 in support of...
Commander John Wade was at work for the Vice Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon when his future assignment as a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) commander in Afghanistan came about. In 2006, as one of a group of hand-picked,...
Major John "Red" Walker, an F-16 pilot for the US Air Force (USAF), flew Harrier GR7s in the Royal Air Force's (RAF) 1 Squadron from Al Jaber Airfield, Kuwait, in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins the interview by discussing...
Lieutenant Commander Dan Davidson, US Navy, deployed to the Global War on Terrorism in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) from November 2002 through June 2003. A naval supply officer, Davidson, who received his...
During the 101st Airborne Division fight from Kuwait to Baghdad in March and April 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. "Hank" Arnold served as officer in charge of the division's assault command post, responsible to the commanding general (CG) and...
Colonel Mark Neate, British Army, was the joint operations officer for United Kingdom (UK) forces at the British Permanent Joint Task Force supporting International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Afghanistan. From April to October...
There is no region of this world that not experienced wars, but while many parts of the world have moved towards greater political and economic stability and co-operation, sub-Saharan Africa remains a cauldron of instability and economic...