In this interview, MAJ Anthony Gore, US Army, Infantry; discusses his 15-month deployment to Iraq as the assistant operations officer (S3) and then transitioned into company commander in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
US Air Force Maj Bart Yates served as a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator out of Jacobabad, Pakistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and again operating Predators out of Tallil Air Base, Iraq during 2003 and...
MAJ Bat-Erdene Batkhuu served as a regimental training officer with the Armed Forces of Mongolia during 2004 and 2005 in Kabul, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In the first of two January 2009 interviews, MAJ Batkhuu...
In this first of two interviews, Major Bill Brodany talks about serving as the fire support officer for 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry in Kuwait and Iraq from October 2002 through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the very...
Major Bill Galinger, Ordnance Corps, deployed from Fort Carson, Colorado, with 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group to support Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). As the Service Detachment commander, Galinger worked feverishly to plan and support...
Major Chris Medina served as the deputy provost marshal for 10th Mountain Division in Kabul from January through December 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the need for negotiation training among those...
A psychological operations detachment commander with 5th Battalion, 4th PSYOP Group from October 2004 through July 2005, Major Dale Russell was in charge of the PSYOP support element for the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, part of...
MAJ Daniel Grieve served as fire support officer (FSO) with the 3-505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) in Kandahar, Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno, FOB Orgun-E and FOB Khost, Afghanistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
From March through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Dan Williamson served as the officer in charge of a mobile training team (MTT) tasked with teaching combat service support members of Afghan National Army...
In this interview, MAJ Darrell Vaughan, US Army, Information Operations (IO); discusses his deployment to Iraq as the Information Operations Special Programs Officer in Charge in 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Vaughan...
From January 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Darren Keahtigh served as commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division - and was based variously in Baghdad...
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...
In this third of three interviews, Major David Motes talks about being a member of the military transition team (MiTT) for the Iraqi 2nd Motor Transportation Regiment (MTR) stationed in Numaniyah from January through December 2005 in support of...
A team chief and later executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 305th Field Artillery Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) at Camp Shelby, Mississippi - from 2003 to 2005 Major David Pierce was responsible for the...
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Lemons and Major David Sierakowski, both members of the Illinois National Guard, have served on active duty fulfilling a two-year tour of duty training various Reserve Component and National Guard units being mobilized in...
MAJ Del Monroy served on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) during 2007 and 2008 in Mosul, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this January 2009 interview, MAJ Monroy discusses the deficiencies of his training at Fort Riley, Kuwait...
Major Doug Schlereth, a member of the Army National Guard, served in various roles as a liaison officer (LNO), including advising an Afghan kandak, throughout Afghanistan from February 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Unable to deploy with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - due to an illness when the unit went to Iraq in early 2004, Major Doug Walter eventually rejoined his comrades in country in July and became...
Deployed from January through August 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Dustin Harris of the US Army Corps of Engineers served as the resident engineer for Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan and, in this capacity, worked on...
In this interview MAJ Dustin Phillips relates his experience as part of a training team deployed to Iraq in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Phillips discusses the challenges he faced in this position, the lack of quality...