MAJ Donald Smith served as a Howitzer platoon leader and battalion ammunition officer at Logistics Support Area (LSA) Anaconda during 2003 and as battalion fire support officer and company commander at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Q-West during...
In this interview, CPT Agyei-Aye, US Army, Infantry; Strategic Planner; discusses his six month deployment to Afghanistan as a company commander in 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). CPT Agyei-Aye discusses his training missions...
In this interview, MAJ David Lambert, US Army, Armor; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the assistant operations officer (S3) in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Lambert discusses a typical day in theater and...
In this interview, MAJ Robert Reed, US Army, Armor; discusses his 15 month deployment to Afghanistan as part of Embedded Training Team (ETT) in 2006 through 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Reed discusses his pre-deployment...
MAJ Jon Casey served as the battalion operations officer (S4) and company commander with 3/67 Armor Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Baqubah, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2011...
In this third of three interviews, COL (Ret.) Russell Thaden discusses his involvement with the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 with V Corps in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this June 2011 interview, COL Thaden discusses that he...
MAJ Brian Bettis served on a stability transition team (STT) at Contingency Operating Base (COB) Speicher during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2011 interview, MAJ Bettis discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview MAJ Steve Barry discusses his deployment to Iraq during the initial phases of the war. Deployed to Kuwait for six months prior to the kickoff of OIF I, MAJ Barry describes the time he and his tank company spent training in the...
In Mosul, Iraq, from January 2004 to January 2005, Captain Angela Bowman was the executive/operations officer for the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a 20-soldier split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit headquartered in...
A former medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and a Special Forces qualified medical sergeant, Captain Gregory McCrum was commissioned in May 2002 after graduating from the inter-service physician assistant (PA) program at Fort Sam Houston....
The leader of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, Task Force 2-2 Infantry during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Captain Jeff Emery was in charge of four Bradleys, two tanks and two dismounted squads during this decisive November 2004 urban fight to...
After serving as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment in Operation Iraqi Freedom I where his unit reduced captured enemy ammunition and trained the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling returned to...
In this wide-ranging interview focusing on his January 2005 through January 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel (P) Edward Cardon discusses his service as the commander of 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and his area...
With 5th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, Major David Chiarenza initially served as a company commander and then moved to become a brigade battle captain and, as needed, brigade planner and current operations...
Captain Daniel Ruecking deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as the assistant fire support officer of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in March 2003, becoming fire support officer of the 1st "Tiger" Squadron, 3rd ACR later that year. He also took...
Having assumed command of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on D-Day, 6 June 2003, Colonel Joseph Buche initially deployed around the Tall Afar border region before his unit redeployed on short notice to the Al Qaim...
Sergeant First Class Dennis Ewing, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor support team member in Numaniyah, Iraq, in 2004-2005. In this interview, he states that the predeployment training they received at...
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...
An Iowa National Guardsman, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Visser was mobilized in March 2004 and soon after deployed to Afghanistan in command of Task Force 168, a 750-soldier battalion comprised principally of his own 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry...
Captain Paul Toolan served as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group while deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. In this interview, he discusses at length four different battles fought by Special Forces (SF) in the...