Performing a mission readiness exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center when 9/11 occurred, Major Brian Harthorn - then the commander of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division - tells how he...
Major Dale Snider, a project manager with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), was assigned to the engineer staff section of Combined Joint Task Force 180 as the leader of a augmenting forward engineer support team (FEST-A) in support...
Roughly six months after arriving at Allied Joint Force Command-Brunssum, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Guggisberg, in January 2004, deployed to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, and began serving as the ISAF...
As the assistant intelligence officer aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise, Lieutenant Commander Dan Kenda helped coordinate "the overall intelligence for the battle group," which was operating in the Persian Gulf region from October 2003...
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...
Colonel (Ret.) Scott Thein served in Iraq from September 2003 through March 2004 as the Division Artillery commander with the 82nd Airborne. He worked primarily at the provincial level and his area of operations was Al Anbar Province. One of the...
Colonel William Darley was the public affairs officer for Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the Combined Joint Task Force 7 commander, from August 2003 to March 2004. In this interview, he describes his public affairs mission in terms of three...
Colonel Roberta A. Woods commanded the 24th Corps Support Group (CSG) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and was deployed from 19 January 2003 until 5 July 2003. The 24th CSG was largely in support of the 3rd Infantry Division although, for a...
From July 2002 through August 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. was assigned to Joint Force Command-Naples, a NATO regional operational headquarters, at which he served in the CJ5 planning and programming section, overseeing the...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. discusses his November 2005 through August 2006 deployment to Afghanistan during which he served as chief of the Special...
Gordon Rudd, PhD, deployed in support of what would later become the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and eventually the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a professor of...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...
In this first of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Jason Warner discusses his role from October 2001 through May 2002 as an analyst and collection manager in US Central Command's joint intelligence cell,...
Following his March to June 2002 deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - where he served as operations officer of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, which had responsibility for external security and detainee transfers at Camps X-Ray and Delta -...
In this third of three interviews, Major Mark Boeke talks about his deployment to Iraq as the communications officer for 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the fall of 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses how Rangers...
In this second of interviews, Major Royal Ripley discusses his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, as a member of the communications staff for Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq from April through October 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Scott Pierce, US Marine Corps, discusses his continuing role as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, this time during and immediately following...
Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Iraq for his second tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) in September 2006. He reported first to Fort Riley, Kansas, to undergo immersion training at FOB Victory,...
Major Matthew Scalia commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry in Baghdad from May through September 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Scalia begins by noting that much of their predeployment training focused on stability...
From November 2002 through June 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Tom Sager commanded the 82nd Airborne Division's Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD) - the first LRSD to deploy in the Global War on Terrorism....