In this first of two interviews, Major Jay Bruns talks about serving as a battle captain on the operations staff of the 519th Military Police (MP) Battalion around Kandahar, Afghanistan from January through June 2002 in support of Operation...
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...
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...
Major Rob Manley served as legal advisor for the 1st Special Forces Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines from April to August 2002. During the preparation for this deployment, Manley's wife gave birth to their child. The...
A KC-135 maintenance commander with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, Major George Unsinger deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, in August 2002 and spent the next three months supporting Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, located...
In this interview Major Eric Fourroux of the Army Nurse Corps discusses his experienced during his deployment to OIF in 2007 in support of the 610 BSB out of Fort Riley, Kansas. Major Fourroux was the only RN located on FOB Falcon during his tour...
LTC Mancini, an Army National Guard surgeon from Manassas, Virginia, discusses his experiences and insights gained from multiple deployments in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Mancini had previously participated in a six month rotation to Bosnia,...
MAJ Tom Lowman served on the V Corps staff as a future operations planner at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq and as liaison officer (LNO) in An Najaf, Iraq during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2010 interview, MAJ...
In this interview MAJ Watters discusses his deployment to Iraq from September 2004 until September 2005 as the personnel officer (S1) with the 106th Transportation Battalion out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. MAJ Watters had just returned from a...
COL Thomas McCune served as the brigade flight surgeon with Task Force 38 in 2010 at Joint Base Balad (JBB) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2010 interview, COL McCune gives a detailed description of the process for a...
In this interview, MAJ Michael Adorjan, US Army, Special Forces; discusses his deployment to Iraq, Africa as the personnel officer (S3) in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Adorjan discusses a typical day in...
MAJ Brian Clough served as an advisor to the logistics director with the Afghan Training Command and as advisor to the director of operations in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this April...
A patient administration officer in peacetime, concerned with things like medical records, admissions and dispositions, during a deployment phase Major Raquel Ernest is a medical regulating officer and, as such, she explained, "My role is to...
With 2nd Brigade of the 75th Division (Training Support) when the call came in December 2004 to deploy the following month to Iraq to work on a military transition team (MiTT) for a year, Major Paul Esmahan was assigned as a logistics MiTT chief...
An orthopedic surgeon in command of the 274th Forward Surgical Team in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from February to August 2003, Lieutenant Colonel (Dr.) Richard Pope was tasked with providing surgical support to enemy prisoners of war,...
This paper is a comparison of three types of prime movers in the transportation of the division light artillery, with a view of pointing out certain advantages and disadvantages possessed by each type. The types so considered are (1) the...
The first year course at the Ecole Superieure de Guerre is devoted to the study of the handling of the Division in Combat. It therefore is essential, at the beginning of the course in General Tactics, to have a conference on the present...
The purpose of this study is to arrive at a logical answer to the question propounded, by a review of the outstanding uses of our forces during the World War and by a consideration of the leading thought throughout the major nations of the world on...
What was the supply and transport status of the main British Force in Mesopotamia during the operations to relieve Kut, and during the preparation for and the advance in 1916-1917.