Major John Tabb deployed from January 2007 until January 2008 as both a border police transition team (BPTT) chief and an Afghan National Army (ANA) embedded training team (ETT) chief in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan -...
Major Dom Clementi, a field artillery officer, deployed to Afghanistan in October 2003 while commanding Alpha Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery. Originally designed to provide direct support fires to the 3rd ACR, Clementi's battery...
Major George Walter served as commander for the 173rd Combat Support Company out of Vicenza, Italy, and deployed in March 2003. Walter filled the role as the engineer advisor to the brigade commander. The company was comprised of one sapper...
Major Tom Sachariason served as the operations officer (S3) for the 27th Trans Battalion in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2005 until June 2006. Unlike previous deployments, the battalion had a predetermined predeployment training...
In 2003-2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Specialist David McGuire deployed with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and served initially as lead driver for an uparmored unit running missions and then later moved to the...
Major Stephen Shrader served as the HHC commander for 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry - part of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - from March 2003 to July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shrader first deployed from May 2002 to December...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
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 James Steven served on a military transition team in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January 2006 to January 2007. Steven reported to Fort Riley and joined the other team members. He discusses the predeployment training received at...
At the time an instructor in the Department of Military Instruction at West Point, Major Mark Winkler assisted the National Military Academy of Afghanistan in developing their military science program in Kabul, Afghanistan, from August through...
From January 2007 through January 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Ronald Walck served as a transportation officer with Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, tasked with manning, equipping and arming the Afghan...
Major Michael Borgel served as the operations officer for the 494th Military Police Battalion at Camp Cropper, the high-value detention facility, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2006 through September 2007. Borgel was a part of...
Captain Richard C. "Rick" Topping is a Regular Army officer who received his commission in 2003 though the Longwood University ROTC program. After a short stint as a tactics officer for ROTC Advanced Camp, Topping attended the Signal Officer Basic...
Major Jon Beale served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from December 2005 through December 2006. Beale reported to Fort Carson in November 2005 to begin predeployment training. After the movement and...
Major LaDaryl Franklin served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division from April 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Franklin discusses...
Major Mike Stephens served as a company commander and S3 with the 701st MSB in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from late 2004 until February 2006. They applied the lessons learned from their deployment to Turkey to their predeployment training...
Major Mark Christensen, in the first of three interviews, talks about serving as a civil affairs team leader in Delta Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion in Al Kut, Iraq, from June through October 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
In this second of three interviews, Major Mark Christensen talks about serving as a civil affairs team leader in Delta Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion in Chamkani, Afghanistan, from February through August 2005 in support of Operation...
From January 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jerry Diamond served initially as the logistics officer for the 312th Military Intelligence Battalion and then later as the commander of Alpha Company, 312th MI. In...
From February 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Steven Fahlenkamp served as HHB commander for the 101st DIVARTY, and from April 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, he...