This paper is a record of some of the events that transpired during my CONUS based mobilization with the Headquarters of the 90th Regional Readiness Command at North Little Rock. Arkansas from February 2005 to March 2009. Additionally, it addresses...
MAJ Andy Dziengeleski served as the Chief of Force Management under the CJ3 directorate in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this February 2009 interview, MAJ Dziengeleski discusses his...
"My first experience with the Global War on Terrorism," said Major Joseph T. Irwin Jr., "was September 11, 2001. I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and our mission was to provide military support...
From March 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major William Shinn served in Combined Joint Task Force 76 as the G4 maintenance chief. In this interview, he discusses deploying as an individual augmentee, getting...
On a 120-day assignment - from March to June 2005 - as the J1 personnel officer for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, which encompassed most of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Major Rod Boles was based at...
From May to November 2004, Major Kenneth "Lex" Luther served as an augmentee fire support officer for Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP), primarily working with 5th Special Forces Group. "I performed a number...
A strong believer in the Army's need for effectively employed augmentees, Major Darrell Bascom, an augmentee assigned to the 123rd Signal Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, said that "a unit's success in the field comes...
Major Pat Wentz was nearing the end of his tenure teaching ROTC at Niagara University when he volunteered to deploy as an individual augmentee, allowing him to attend the Command and General Staff College post deployment. Wentz was deployed from...
MAJ Charles Preble served as a planner with Multi-National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I) headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010 interview, MAJ Preble discusses the challenges of...
MAJ Eric Ala served as an individual augmentee with the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 in...
A medical evacuation officer by trade, Major Michael Pouncey was tasked, as an individual augmentee, to fill a medical information manager position - his secondary area of concentration - with the 109th Area Support Medical Battalion, an Army...
An individual augmentee with V Corps out of Heidelberg, Germany, tasked for duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major John Lorenzen arrived in country in January 2006 thinking he was going to be assigned to the combined staff logistics shop...
From July 2003 through July 2004, Major Charles Kirchmaier served as the regimental judge advocate with the 75th Ranger Regiment and deployed twice to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He later served on the MNF-I Strategic...
Major Matthew Little served as a construction manager for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, from November 2005 through May 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about his...
Major Steve Wright served as the officer-in-charge of programs, policy and personnel actions for Multinational Force-Iraq’s (MNF-I) Directorate of Personnel at Camp Victory, Iraq, from February 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation...
In this interview, MAJ Tad Stephens, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as an Individual Augmentee in June 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF). MAJ Stephens discusses his responsibilities during deployment and his perception...
With the Army's Criminal Investigation Division as a shift operations officer when the 9/11 attacks occurred, Major J.D. Branch became part of the FBI's joint operations center for Pentagon recovery that was headquartered at the Pentagon itself and...
While stationed at Fort Stewart where she was a company commander with the 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Major Racquel Gallman, a finance officer, was selected to fill an individual augmentee position as the CJ8 - or resource manager - for...
Assigned to the 1st Marine Division as an individual augmentee from Okinawa, Japan, Major Travis O'Selmo deployed to Ramadi, Iraq, from March through September 2004 to conduct civil-military operations in Al Anbar Province as part of a staff...
From January 2006 through January 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Darryl Schroeder - an individual augmentee from the 4th PSYOP Group - served as part of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan and was tasked with...