Colonel John "Mike" Murray served as commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005. His area of responsibility began as the Green Zone (later called the International Zone) and included...
Colonel Gregory Gass was the brigade commander for the 101st Aviation Brigade, during both OIF I and II, deploying in January of 2003 and returning home in February 2004. Interviewed alongside his colonel was Major John White, the brigade executive...
Colonel Gregory Gass was the brigade commander for the 101st Aviation Brigade, during both OIF I and II, deploying in January of 2003 and returning home in February 2004. Interviewed alongside his colonel was Major John White, the brigade executive...
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...
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...
Captain Christian Solinsky served in Operation Iraqi Freedom II from early 2003 through early 2004 at Ba'qubah, Iraq. His main mission was to train the police although he had no experience as an MP prior to this assignment. Initial training...
Captain Sam Rogers is the former Bravo Troop commander with 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and is currently a member of the Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab in the Experimental Division at Fort Knox. He participated in Operation Iraqi...
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...
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon is the senior fellow for foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and is an internationally recognized expert on Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is frequently cited in print and regularly appears before...
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Baker of the 82nd Airborne Division spent the first three months of his May to December 2002 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom based in Kandahar, Afghanistan as the Task Force Panther engineer; and then...
When Lieutenant Colonel David Seigel was first alerted for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was serving as the executive officer (XO) of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He...
Major Matt Kinkead served from February 2004 to February 2005 in Iraq as commander of the 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. In country, his unit functioned like a reserve unit, and as such they moved...
In this second of three interviews, Major Greg Ford discusses serving as the division intelligence collection manager for the 101st Airborne Division and as the commander of Charlie Company, 311th Military Intelligence Battalion from the Kuwait...
In command of Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Daniel Benz supported the initial operations to seize and secure the southern Iraqi oilfields...
A forward observer attached to Combined Arms Team-A - a mobile reconnaissance unit part of Combined Arms Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines - Sergeant Jason McManus arrived in Kuwait in February 2003 and participated in Operation...
In this first of two interviews covering his two Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments, Major Tom Vogel discusses his role as the logistics officer for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in the Kurdish Autonomous Zone in 2003. His battalion's...
Master Sergeant Luis Jackson Jr. currently works in the Office of the Chief of Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 through February 2005 first as the scout platoon sergeant, Headquarters and...
Sergeant First Class Pedro Marrero was with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in Iraq from February 2004 until February 2005. He worked in the brigade tactical operations center (TOC) as the NCO in charge of the TOC and as a battle NCO. His...
Still in command of Tactical PSYOP Detachment 980 - part of Charlie Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion - Major John Adams, in this second interview reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, discusses his January to June 2003 tour in support of...
At the time of his deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Stanley S. Bennett was a full-time administrative and training officer for his Missouri National Guard unit. He deployed with the 135th Rear Operations Center and was...