In January 2003, Major Doug Brinson - at the time the commander of Bravo Company, 317th Engineer Battalion, supporting 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - deployed to Kuwait and began intensive training for what soon became Operation Iraqi...
US Navy CDR Richard Halloran served as a contracting officer tasked with overseeing contracts to build public health centers in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and on an oil terminal in the Arabian Gulf during...
In this interview, MAJ Robert Kotek, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the company commander for the 304th Materiel Management Team (MMT) in 2004 through 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kotek discusses...
In this interview, MAJ Troy Schnack, US Army, Field Artillery; discusses his deployment to Iraq as part of the Stability Transition Team (STT) in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Schnack discusses his missions as...
COL (Ret.) Russell Thaden served as the senior US officer and chief of intelligence for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany prior to his deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004 in support...
In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
In this interview MAJ Mack McCarthy, Infantry, discusses his 15-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. MAJ McCarthy brings up his pre-deployment training, issues the organization faced in leaving so quickly,...
In this interview, MAJ Samantha Jones, US Army, Logistics; discusses her two deployments to Iraq as a company commander and battalion executive officer in 2004 through 2005 and then 2010 through 2011 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). ...
MAJ Freda Bouchelaghem served as company commander of the 119th Cargo Transport Company (CTC) in Kuwait during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2011 interview, MAJ Bouchelaghem discusses the general duties of a CTC,...
CH (MAJ) Tommy Vaughn served as a chaplain with the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) at Camp Cropper in the Victory Base Complex during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this July 2010 interview, MAJ Vaughn discusses...
In this interview MAJ Crawley relates some of the organizational difficulties he observed resulting from the reorganization of the 38th CAB's Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) into a modular aviation brigade headquarters prior to...
MAJ Shane Vesely served as a C-130 pilot and squadron commander with the 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron (ESOS) in 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this September 2011 interview, MAJ Vesely discusses...
The Headquarters and Headquarters Company commander for 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division - in Iraq from May through August 2003, Major Esli Pitts witnessed "the initial exuberance of the Iraqis when...
MAJ John Hotek served as the Joint Task Force (JTF) Transportation officer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during 2003 and 2004 and with 3rd Special Forces Group (SFG) in Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007 in support of the Global War on Terror...
From October 2003 to April 2004, Major Douglas Schenck worked in the J5 at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. In his duty position as ground operations officer, Schenck dealt directly with Pacific Rim countries, such...
A student at the Judge Advocate General's School from September 2001 through June 2002, Major Charles Lozano then moved to Germany and assumed duties as chief of criminal law for the 1st Armored Division until August of the following year. "The big...
A veteran of two post-9/11 deployments to Iraq, Major Victor Delacruz commanded Bravo Battery, 6-27 Field Artillery, operating out of Balad (LSA Anaconda), from April to November 2003. Then, from November 2004 to March 2005, he returned with 75th...
In this interview, MAJ Bryan Bowlsbey, US Army, Signal; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the operations officer (S3) and the Signal officer (S6) for Joint Logistics Task Force 1144 in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
Attached to the 10th Special Forces Group during two separate deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from March to May 2003 with 2nd Battalion, the second from January to June 2004 with 3rd Battalion - Major Steven Nosbisch...
MAJ Stacy Tomic served as a regimental logistics support team (LST) chief at Contingency Operating Site (COS) Kalsu during 2010 and 2011 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this May 2012 interview, MAJ Tomic discusses the role of Army...