In this first of three interviews, Major Mark Boeke talks about his deployment to Bagram, Afghanistan, as the communications officer for 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment from September through October 2002 in support of Operation Enduring...
From February to June 2003, Major Michelle Washington was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with the XVIII Airborne Corps, during which she served as the strength manager in the combined staff personnel section (C1)....
Major William Moen deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. Having taken command in May 2003, Moen and his company experienced some soldier and leader turbulence in preparing...
Major Lanny Mihelich, Transportation Corps, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military transition team (MiTT) member in mid-2006. Predeployment training at Fort Riley, Kansas, took place as the 1st Infantry Division returned from OCONUS,...
From December 2005 through December 2006, Major Tony Nichols served as the military transition team (MiTT) leader assigned to coach, teach and mentor two different Iraqi Army units: initially the 1st Iraqi Division Motor Transport Regiment and...
In April 2003, Major Wayne Sodowsky deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the assistant operations officer of the 70th Engineer Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division - a mechanized combat engineer unit. After doing a...
Major Larry Burris commanded Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division during the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Commanding for 22 months, Burris deployed his company to Kuwait attached to 1st...
Major Mark Gillespie served as the assistant team leader on a military transition team (MiTT) around Baghdad from May 2005 through June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the focus of predeployment...
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...
Major Corey Crosbie was an observer-controller at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, when a US Army Europe (USAEUR) request for volunteers drew his attention in November 2005. An armor officer, he joined a team headed for...
In this third of three interviews concerning his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Allan Selburg discusses his March 2005 through March 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he served on a special police...
Major Ross Davis, an officer in the Texas Army National Guard, served on an embedded training team (ETT) assigned to an Afghan infantry battalion - initially as the executive officer mentor, then later as the operations officer mentor and finally...
Major Doug Watkins served as the brigade judge advocate for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in Taji, Iraq, from December 2005 through December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon arriving in Iraq, Watkins went...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...
In this third of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Jason Warner discusses his February to November 2006 deployment to Afghanistan, during which he served initially as the military intelligence company (MICO)...
From November 2006 through November 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major William Arnold served as the executive officer, logistics advisor and some-time intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT), tasked with force...
Major Matthew Payne served as commander of Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division. 1-9 Field Artillery was direct support to the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team in support of Operations Desert...
Ms. Karen Malzahn, a Foreign Service officer, was the deputy principal officer in the US Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she volunteered to serve with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From her commitment in the fall of...
Major (Chaplain) Harry "Chip" Huey redeployed to Iraq for a second tour in February 2004, less than six months after his return from Operation Iraqi Freedom I. Executing an in-country transfer from Hanau to Vilseck, Germany, Huey quickly began to...
About his June 2003 through February 2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Todd Hourihan describes himself as having had to "hitchhike" both into and out of war. He begins this interview by telling how his original orders...