In this end of tour interview, LTC Dave Vesper devotes the majority of the narrative to discussing his experiences commanding the 1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once in theater, LTC Vesper found his...
In this interview, MAJ John Burns, Army National Guard, Field Artillery; discusses his deployment to Iraq as a platoon leader, executive officer (XO), assistant operations officer (AS3) and S3 in 2005 through 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In Mosul, Iraq, from January 2004 to January 2005, Captain Angela Bowman was the executive/operations officer for the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a 20-soldier split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit headquartered in...
During his February 2004 to January 2005 deployment to Mosul in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings commanded the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit...
United States Air Force MAJ Casey Bartholomew served with the 1st Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron, Engineers (RED HORSE) Group in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 and 2006 and in the International Zone in...
In this interview, LTC John Seprodi relates his experiences as the commander of the 138th Financial Management Company (FMCO) deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from June 2010 to May 2011. In the opening...
During the so-called Battle of Easter Sunday that took place in Samarra, Iraq, on 11-12 April 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Kirk Allen was in command of 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division) - and in this...
From June 2004 through July 2005, Major Cameron Cantlon served as the brigade operations officer for Area Support Group-Kuwait, located at Camp Arifjan. "To summarize in a sentence," he explained, ASG-Kuwait "conducts force protection and base...
MAJ Kenneth Gettinger served as a planner with the 3rd Corps Support Command (COSCOM) at Camp Virginia, Kuwait and Joint Base Balad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2012 interview, MAJ Gettinger...
In this interview, LTC Jere J. Riggs relates his experiences as an individual augmentee deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from June to September 2006. Unlike most Guardsmen, Riggs was brought on Active Duty status on an individual...
Assigned to Combined Forces Land Component Command/Third Army from June 2002 through July 2003, Colonel Kevin Benson served as the assistant chief of staff C/J5 Plans for the opening phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. "I was charged with overseeing...
Tasked with contingency airbase defense during his first two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from August to December 2003 at Tallil Airbase, the second from May to October 2004 at Baghdad International Airport - US Air...
After serving as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment in Operation Iraqi Freedom I where his unit reduced captured enemy ammunition and trained the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling returned to...
In this August 2012 interview, MAJ Charles Dixon, US Army, Signal; discusses his two deployments to Iraq as a company executive officer (XO) for Charlie Company of the 63rd Signal Battalion in 2003 and a battalion logistics officer (S4) in 2007 in...
In this December 2012 interview, MAJ AJ Besik, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Security Force Assistance advisor to the Afghan National Police in RC-North in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
Captain Anthony Yeatts assumed command of Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2003. During his tour, his unit was tasked with a variety of missions not normally associated with the...
Preparing for his role as V Corps chaplain for what became Operation Iraqi Freedom, Chaplain (Brigadier General) Douglas Carver concerned himself with stress management training, placement of ministry teams at forward hospitals, working with family...
Major John Casper was the operations officer for Task Force 1-26 Infantry during the Easter Sunday Battle of Samarra in April 2004. Casper describes the background of the battle, including the challenges of supervising a Shi'a religious festival in...
Currently the deputy chief of staff, G6, of the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Edward Castle was involved as a project officer in the training and advisory effort in Iraq in 2004-2005. Alerted that their Reserve unit would be...
Colonel Robert Catalanotti, serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), was the mobilization commander at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from September through December 2004 and then the base commander at Taji, Iraq, from December 2004...