In this interview, MAJ Ali Davis, US Army, Chemical; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the protection joint operations center officer in charge in 2008 through 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Davis discusses a typical day...
MAJ Mark Barton served as the chief targeting officer at Combined Joint Task Force 76 (CJTF-76) at Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and as assistant operations officer (S3), then...
MAJ Marc Austin served with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment in Al Kifel, Najaf, Karbala, Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq during 2003 and 2004, as company commander with 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry in Ba'qubah, Iraq during 2006 and 2007...
MAJ Percy Rhone served as commander of the 710th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company in Tikrit, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this December 2010 interview, MAJ Rhone discusses the evolution of EOD,...
In this May 2009 interview MAJ Kell Glass, Military Police (MP) discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of an Iraqi National Police Transition Team (NPTT) in from August 2007 through August 2008. MAJ Glass discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview, MAJ Jennifer Paulik, US Army, Adjutant General (AG); discusses her deployment to Kuwait as the Postal Deputy Director in 2008 through 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Paulik discusses her missions with...
In this interview, MAJ (Ret) Paul Conway, US Army, Infantry; discusses his voluntary deployment to Iraq as part of the National Police Transition Team in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Conway shares why he chose...
As the Command Judge Advocate of 5th Special Forces Group, Major Mark Holzer reviewed rules of engagement and briefed and de-briefed SOF teams mostly in the Baghdad environs during his March to May 2003 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI...
For US Air Force Major Christine Locke and her fellow members of the 4411th Rescue Squadron, the Global War on Terrorism began not on September 11, 2001, but on June 25, 1996, when terrorists detonated a bomb at the Khobar Towers housing complex in...
In this interview MAJ (CH) Barlow relates how he received notification that he was to mobilize for service in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and how he had to ensure his home church was covered by an interim pastor in order to assure his job after...
In this January 2009 interview MAJ Ed Twaddell, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Iraq as the company commander of Alpha Company 2-7 CAV in March 2004. MAJ Twaddell describes his movement into theater, the difficultly his company had upon...
In this interview, MAJ Deitrich Jordan, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the joint logistics officer (J4) in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Jordan discusses why he chose to volunteer as an...
MAJ Brad Laauwe served as Bravo Company commander with 2-70 Armor in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2009 interview MAJ Laauwe discusses the short notice his unit received about their...
In this interview, MAJ Daniel Rossi, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the operations officer (S3) in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Morgan talks about his missions and the interaction he...
In this interview, MAJ Jonathan Meisel, US Army, Logistics, discusses his 15 month deployment to Iraq as a company commander for the 82nd Sustainment Brigade in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Meisel compares his...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ Steven Coston, an aviation intelligence officer, discusses his deployment to Iraq with the 1st Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion in July 2005. MAJ Coston relates his quick integration into the unit and immediate...
MAJ Michael Larkin served on the brigade staff and as the battalion operations officer (S3) with 4-25 Field Artillery in Wardak Province, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this November 2010...
From March to September 2004 and based out of Bagram, Afghanistan, Major James Dimon commanded Bravo Company, 214th Aviation Regiment - part of the 25th Aviation Brigade. Then, during the latter six months of his Operation Enduring Freedom...
In this interview, MAJ Wade German, US Army, Field Artillery; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the executive officer (XO) on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Germann...
Deployed as an individual augmentee in August 2002, Major Peter Dargle served in the J5 for plans and policies for 12 months under U.S. Central Command and was primarily based at Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa,...