Captain Alain Samples started her career in the military as a transportation platoon leader in a National Guard transportation company. Samples was subsequently selected to attend flight school, after which she was assigned to a National Guard air...
Days after the 9/11 attacks, Major Robert J. Gomez (USAF), serving with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, deployed to a "forward secure location on the eastern seaboard" in charge of 11 KC-135s and 100 personnel. There, he...
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...
Captain Michael A. Hannon's initial experiences with mobilization appeared to set the tone for his entire deployment experience. Hannon received an unofficial warning in October 2004 while he was in attendance at the Signal Officer's Advanced...
The assistant operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Major D. Jones and his unit was tasked with conducting mainly unconventional warfare in northern Iraq during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Fighting...
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...
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 Chad Quayle served as the deputy team chief and military transition team (MiTT) intelligence trainer for the 5th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2006 until November 2007. In...
From February 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jim Carlson served as the assistant S5 with the 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) and, in this capacity, was tasked with helping stand up the Iraqi Highway...
Major Michael Borgel served as the assistant operations officer for the 384th Military Police Battalion at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from May 2003 through June 2004. Borgel was part of a Reserve unit when he was notified of...
In this third part of a three-part interview concerning his experiences in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Tom Hough discusses his 2004-2005 deployment to Iraq as the commander of F Company, 51st Infantry - the long-range surveillance...
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...
From June to December 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Nikolai Andresky served as the S3, S2 and de facto XO trainer on an advisory team assigned to train the first and only Afghan National Army armor battalion....
From March 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Kevin MacNeil served as commander of Charlie Company, 440th Signal Battalion and was tasked with direct support to the V Corps main command post. In this two-part...
A veteran of two deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Geoff Van Epps, in this two-part interview, discusses each of them, beginning with his July to December 2002 tour as part of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan,...
Major Joel Gilbert served as an infantry line company commander in the Alaska Army National Guard - the first combat unit in the Alaska Guard to go to a combat zone since World War II - and mobilized with the 29th Brigade from the Hawaii Army...
Major David Novy, US Air Force, in this second of two interviews, talks about serving as a project engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Bagram, Afghanistan, from April through October 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Unlike...
In this two-part interview, Major Joe O'Neil discusses his service as the executive officer (XO) for the 2nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 66th Military Intelligence Group at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and Camp Cropper from January through December 2006...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Pedro Agapay discusses serving on a border transition team as a personnel advisor in Nineveh Province, Iraq from May 2005 into 2006...
Major Joe Escandon served initially as the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment supply officer and then commander of Charlie Company in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2003 through January 2004. In this two-part interview,...