MAJ Jayson Stewart served on an embedded training team (ETT) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Echo, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2009 interview, MAJ Stewart discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview MAJ Scott Stokoe, Medical Service Corps, describes his deployment to Afghanistan as a member of an embedded training team (ETT). MAJ Stokoe discusses the challenges he experienced in training at Fort Riley, Kansas and how the...
In this interview, MAJ Alvin Tilley, US Army, Infantry; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a company commander in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Tilley discusses his pre-deployment training and his...
In this interview, MAJ Laura Updegraff, US Army, AG; discusses her deployment to Iraq as a personnel officer (S1) in 2008 through 2009 and then again in 2010 through 2011 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Updegraff discusses her...
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...
In this interview, CPT Edward Bankston, US Army, Infantry; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as the weapons company commander in 2010 through 2011 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Bankston discusses his responsibilities when...
A veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan as part of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) - the first from January to August 2004 as the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company operations sergeant, the second from June 2005 to February 2006 as an...
In this October 2012 interview, MAJ Damon Wagner, US Army, Aviation discusses his deployment to Iraq as a captain in the Brigade Aviation Element and then as a liaison officer to the 2nd MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) forward command in 2007...
Roughly a month after taking command of Bravo Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Tactical Exploitation System) in November 2002, Major Art La Flamme received his deployment order and, by January, was at Ahmed Al Jaber Airbase in Kuwait...
In this January 2013 interview, MAJ Jack Lovell, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a brigade support battalion (BSB) operations officer (S3) for 24th BSB, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) in 2011 through 2012...
In this November 2012 interview, MAJ (CH) Don Williamson, US Army, Chaplain discusses his two deployments. One to Iraq as a Reserve MP officer as the antiterrorism force protection officer for the C7, the engineer cell, for III Corps and held the...
In this interview, MAJ Chris Kelshaw, US Army, Infantry discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander for 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry in 2008 through 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kelshaw talks about his multiple...
Colonel Bruce Grant was the deputy commander of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Iraq from December 2005 through September 2006. Retired when Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced, Grant "felt a sense of duty" to return to active service and...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Matthew Jones served as an advisor support team leader in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview, he recounts the process of mobilizing a reserve unit for service overseas, describing...
Major Jeff Tennyson, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor to the New Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. Tennyson's unit, an engineer company, was already mobilized at Fort Leonard Wood when he found out they would...
At the time of this interview the commander of 3rd Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training) - a Reserve unit headquartered in Rochester, New York - Colonel Lawrence J. Kelly played a key role in the 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advisory...
Colonel Jody Daniels, a reservist who served formerly with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq as a member of that division's survey team, and later became the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq joint staff...
An Iowa National Guardsman with Delta Company, 234th Signal Battalion (a corps mobile subscriber equipment asset) Captain David Broomhall - a first lieutenant at the time - served as the movement officer during the unit's 2004-2005 deployment in...
From May 2003 to June 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Timothy Connelly served initially (and briefly) as the 317th Military Police Battalion signal officer and then for the remainder of his tour commanded the 351st MP Company,...