Colonel Ted Martin with the 4th Infantry Division had two assignments in Operation Iraqi Freedom. First, he commanded the 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, and then at the end of June 2003 transitioned to be the operations officer (G3) for the 4th...
Colonel Thomas Torrance was the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division Artillery (DIVARTY) from June of 2002 until the end of May 2004, and was in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 20 March 2003 to July 2003. He was predominantly located in the tactical...
Lieutenant Colonel Cory Mendenhall served as the chief of operations for the Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division during combat operations from the Kuwait border to Baghdad through 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this...
Major James R. McKee served as the chief of military and civil law for the 1st Infantry Division in Turkey and as the command judge advocate for the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in the Tikrit area in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In...
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Efflandt was the executive officer and then later deputy commander of 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom from approximately January 2004 until March 2005. Since 2nd Brigade deployed three...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
Major James D. Sides, a military police officer who graduated from the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in June 2007, sat for this interview by fellow MP officer and CGSC student Major Jeffrey Holmes to capture the former's experiences in...
Aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Harry S. Truman during an October 2004 to April 2005 cruise in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Russell served as the operations officer for the Truman Strike Group's destroyer squadron. The...
Major William Black served as a captain with Coalition Task Force 82 as a battle captain and a company commander, as well as a liaison officer to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan from the period of August 2002 to February...
From January through December 2005, Major James Schreiner served as a joint staff planner in the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan CJ7 engineer directorate. More specifically, in the first half of his tour, he was the lead engineer planner for...
Having commanded both a headquarters company and a Blackhawk helicopter company while with 2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment - part of the 4th Infantry Division - Major James Tenpenny's March 2003 to March 2004 service in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM...
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...
During the major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Chaplain (Major) Gary Payne served as chaplain for the 82nd Airborne Division's 82nd Signal Battalion and remained in Kuwait as the division rear chaplain. After three months, he was allowed...
During his May 2005 through May 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeffrey O'Sadnick served as the joint staff logistics officer (J4) forward for the Iraqi Assistance Group (IAG). Based at Taji where the Phoenix Academy...
In this first of three interviews, Major David Motes talks about his service as the supply and services officer for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 561st Corps Support Battalion at Camp Snoopy, Doha, Qatar, from January through August 2002...
Major David Motes, in this second of three interviews, talks about being the commander of the 102nd Quartermaster Company, a general support petroleum company, in Iraq from March 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As...
In February 2003, US Army Major Jason Lewallen joined 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (UK) as an exchange officer. During his more than three years of service with this British unit, he served variously as the operations officer for 659 Squadron as well...
In charge of the 439th Military Police Detachment and deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from November 2003 to January 2005, Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Sylvester, while in country, ran the Baghdad-area detention facility...