MAJ Brett Fehrenbacher served as the task force intelligence officer at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kalsu during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this May 2011 interview, MAJ Fehrenbacher discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview, MAJ Joel Cummings, US Army, Judge Advocate General (JAG); discusses his deployment to Iraq as the Brigade Judge Advocate in 2005 through 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Cummings discusses his reaction to...
In this interview CPT Thiendella Fall of the Senegalese Army discusses his operational experience throughout his time in the Army. CPT Fall describes the deployments he has been on in his own country in defense of the border from rebels as well as...
In this May 2009 interview MAJ Joshua Ruisanchez, Aviation, discusses his deployment to Iraq as the petroleum, oil, and lubricants/ammunition (Class III/V) platoon leader in the 2-3 Infantry. MAJ Ruisanchez recounts the training he and his platoon...
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 group interview, Captain Laura Pratt and First Lieutenant Erin Jayne share their experiences as the commander and operations officer (respectively) for an Army National Guard Quartermaster company deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. ...
A veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from February to June 2003 and the second from February to May 2005 - US Marine Corps Major Carlos Urbina, during his initial rotation, served as a communications...
Part of a 10-man advisor support team assigned to the 7th Iraqi Army Battalion and located principally at the Kirkush Military Training Base and the nearby town of Balad Ruz from March through November 2004, Major Robert Dixon was tasked with a...
In this interview Captain Amber Anderson describes her experiences as a platoon leader assigned to the 215th Area Support Medical Company deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom starting in October 2008. Upon her deployment into Iraq, CPT Anderson...
A former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and later Bravo Battery commander in 2nd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment - a Patriot missile equipped unit - Major Matthew Rauscher, in January 2003, became the assistant operations...
Joining the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment as its operations officer in the summer of 2003, Major James Gallivan recounts in this interview some of his experiences during Operation Iraqi Freedom, particularly those relating to that...
Major General John P. McLaren Jr., formerly the assistant division commander for operations for the 80th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 as commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group. Replacing the 98th Division as...
In this interview geared towards analyzing and better understanding the battlefield relationships between US conventional and special operations forces, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Logan shares his deep insights, drawing upon not only his civil...
When the 98th Division (Institutional Training) deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, Major General James R. Helmly was the chief of Army Reserve and commanding general of United States Army Reserve Command. In this interview, focusing on the 98th's...
An Army reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Friedman served as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team command and control cell's operations officer in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview,...
Currently the chief of force generation at Fort Leavenworth's Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance, Colonel Sean Ryan, in mid 2004, was "brought in … to assist Brigadier General Richard Sherlock" - assistant division commander...
An Iowa National Guard (and former active duty) chemical officer who got herself branch qualified in transportation in order to take command and deploy to Iraq with the 2168th Transportation Company, Captain Jennifer Mlocek took over the unit a...
Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
Deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February to November 2003, Major Steven Bower initially commanded Charlie Company, 311th Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, and then mid-tour...
From the summer of 2002 until he left to attend the Command and General Staff College in the summer of 2005, Major Greg Bodge served at Fort Leavenworth's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) as the National Guard liaison officer. This...