From May 2003 to June 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Timothy Connelly served initially (and briefly) as the 317th Military Police Battalion signal officer and then for the remainder of his tour commanded the 351st MP Company,...
Major Christopher Lawson, a National Guardsman who deployed to Iraq with the 42nd Infantry Division, served as a project officer in Iraq from January to November 2005 and was assigned to work with and advise Iraqi oil security battalions. Based on...
The commander of 3rd Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division from 2001 to 2003, Colonel Jeff Underhill "deployed batteries in multiple directions in support of both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi...
From 2002 through 2004, Mr. Gene Del Bianco served as the US Department of State's political-military advisor in the US Embassy in Kuwait and, in this capacity, he said, "One of the major issues I was dealing with in my portfolio was the planning...
From the summer of 2002 until he left to attend the Command and General Staff College in the summer of 2005, Major Greg Bodge served at Fort Leavenworth's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) as the National Guard liaison officer. This...
The chief of operations and plans for the US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division's Southern District in Iraq - covering the entire battlespace south of Baghdad - Major Mark Geraldi served in this capacity from August 2004 through June...
A Regular Army signal officer assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division in Iraq from October 2004 to November 2005, Major Rodney Penny augmented the headquarters of the first National Guard division "to be called onto active duty to command and...
"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...
Major Jeffrey Witt served as a plans officer for logistics plans at the Multinational Brigade-Northwest headquarters in the Nineveh, Irbil and Dahuk Provinces of Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Witt describes in the interview some of...
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...
Major Thomas Clinton Jr., US Marine Corps, deployed to Afghanistan in April 2004 to lead a 13-man embedded training team assigned to coach, teach and mentor the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Afghan National Army Brigade, which was considered a commando...
Major John Walton commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry around Iskandariyah, Habbaniyah and Fallujah, Iraq from September 2003 through September 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As he explains in this first of two...
In this second interview covering his experiences in the Global War on Terrorism, Major John Walton discusses his service as a liaison officer and plans officer in the operations staff of the 75th Ranger Regiment in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005 in...
Operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt from February to May 2003, Lieutenant Commander David Walch served as the intelligence officer for Carrier Air Wing Eight. "I basically ran and managed about five...
Having served two tours of duty during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel Richard O. Hatch brings a unique perspective to the War on Terrorism. First, he was staff judge advocate for the 101st Airborne Division, reporting to (then) Major General...
Part two of the interview with Major Brian Beckno focuses on his March to June 2003 experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as the commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry, part of 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, and...
Part two of the interview with Major Wesley Wright covers his August to December 2003 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the supply company commander in the 82nd Forward Support Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the...
The operations officer for Task Force 1-77, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from February to August 2004, Major Curtis Hudson was responsible for training and the planning and executing of...
Captain Jon M. Trolla served in two rotations as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). He first served six months at Camp Victory in Baghdad as a battle captain then served as the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) engineer for Task Force Freedom, a...
CSM Tito Ortiz-Torres was the battalion command sergeant major for 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2003 to January 2004. His area of operations was initially in Fallujah...