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,...
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 Mark Donnithorne served as the facilities programs officer for the Combined Joint Task Force 7 Engineering Directorate from April to July 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Donnithorne completed predeployment training and...
From April 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, CW3 Mark Brubeck (a CW2 at the time) served as the mobility warrant officer as part of HHC, 4th Infantry Division, in the Division Transportation Office. Brubeck was,...
Deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from March 2004 through February 2005, Colonel James C. McConville commanded the 1st Cavalry Division's 4th Aviation Brigade and, in this interview, focuses on his unit's participation in Operation...
From April to October 2007 in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Scott Gould served as the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) officer with the Qatar-based CENTCOM Joint Security Office and was tasked with traveling all...
From March 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Anthony New served initially as the commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry, part of 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, and then later as an...
Major David Wakefield served as an assistant S3 with 10th Special Forces Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April until July 2005. The battalion had deployed in January 2005 and Wakefield was deploying to replace another staff officer...
During Major John Gregor's January 2004 to January 2005 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, he served as the signal officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Black Jack Brigade). Initially, his brigade headquarters deployed under...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
Serving at Air Mobility Command in the Tanker Airlift Control Center on 9/11, U.S. Air Force Major Kevin Schiller was immediately tasked with building an air refueling support plan for the initial combat air patrols over key American cities and,...
From June 2004 through June 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Pam Newbern served at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as the air defense artillery signal officer and also as the ground operations officer for Combined Forces Land Component...
From October 2006 through October 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Joseph Chestnut served as the intelligence advisor and executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT), assigned initially to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th...
In this first of four interviews, Lieutenant Commander Ted Kleinberg talks about serving as the naval flight officer in a E-2 Hawkeye from VAW-124 onboard the USS Enterprise in the Arabian Sea from September through November 2001 in support of...
In this second of three interviews, Major John Martin talks about serving in the division operations staff fires cell for Combined Joint Task Force-82 in Bagram, Afghanistan, from January 2007 through March 2008 in support of Operation Enduring...
In this first of three interviews, Major Steven Beaumont talks about serving as the communications officer for Task Force Warrior in Fort Jackson, Mississippi and Tazar, Hungary, from October 2002 through April 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In this second of three interviews, Major Steven Beaumont talks about serving as the assistant operations officer for the 3rd Signal Brigade at Camp Victory, Iraq, from August through December 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Crisman served as the intelligence officer for 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this email correspondence interview, he talks about detainee holding areas at 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...