A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
A reservist serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Todd Arnold was commander of the division rear in 2004-2005 while elements of the unit were deployed to Iraq. In this interview, he provides a great deal of detail...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Matthew Jones served as an advisor support team leader in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview, he recounts the process of mobilizing a reserve unit for service overseas, describing...
Having enlisted in the US Army back in 1994 at the age of 33, Captain Lisa Bloom - a licensed and practicing attorney living in Iowa at the time - later became a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division and, after graduating from the...
A career conventional officer with extensive post-9/11 experience working with the special operations community, Major James Bogart served as the logistics officer (S4) for 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group from July 2002 through July 2003,...
An Iowa National Guardsman, Captain Aaron Baugher commanded the 58-man 194th Long Range Surveillance (LRS) Detachment, part of the 34th Infantry Division, in Iraq from February 2004 through February 2005. Beginning with discussing the "of little...
Roughly six months after arriving at Allied Joint Force Command-Brunssum, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Guggisberg, in January 2004, deployed to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, and began serving as the ISAF...
Major Christopher Niesen served as an Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) advisor to the 29th Brigade, Hawaii National Guard in 2004 in support of a deployment to the Horn of Africa (HOA) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
Before 9/11, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Falk was serving as executive officer for a field artillery battalion in the California National Guard, in addition to holding a civilian job. Following the terrorist attacks, though, as he explained, "I got some...
From July 2003 through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Waters served as the operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. In this interview, he...
Colonel Steve Ward is the crisis action team (CAT) chief at the Army Operations Center (AOC) in the Pentagon. The AOC is primarily a resource provider - soldiers and equipment - and serves as a conduit for information flow to senior leadership. The...
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...
In this third of three interviews, Major Greg Ford talks about serving as the intelligence officer for 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in the Kirkuk region of Iraq in 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. An initial problem...
During the first six months of his December 2004 through December 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Mark Coble served as executive officer of the 224th Engineer Battalion, Iowa National Guard, and then, for the remainder...
Captain Keith W. Bragg supported Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2004 through March 2005. Based at FOB Headhunter inside the Green Zone, for the first four months of his deployment he served as the executive officer of the 1st Cavalry Division's...
Coming from the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss, where he'd been an instructor, Major Michael Melito - during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - was assigned as an individual augmentee to 1st Battalion, 3rd Air...
Major Robert McCaskell was an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) officer, assigned as the operations officer of the Support Battalion of the 196th Infantry Brigade, US Army Pacific (USARPAC) in 2003 when his participation in support of the Global War on...
In command of the Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD) out of the 110th Military Intelligence Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Major Robert Schexnayder deployed to Afghanistan from July 2003 through May 2004. Initially working in the border...
An officer in the Australian Army, Major Jamie McDonald served as the C3 operations officer in charge of the Joint Operations Center in Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) Headquarters from September 2004 to April 2005. Based at Camp Victory in...
Major Michael Barger, in this second of two interviews, talks about commanding the 324th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Company in Balad, Iraq, from May 2005 through May 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses using his...