MAJ Karrie Patterson served as company commander of Charlie Company, 260th Infantry in Kuwait during 2004 and 2005 in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this November 2008 interview, MAJ...
This is a trascript of a 1993 interview with Sergeant Major of the Army George W Dunway (USA-ret) for the US Army museum of the noncommissioned officer sergeants major of the ARMY history book project.
This is a transcript of a lecture given by Sergeant Major Dennis Thompson, former Vietnam War POW, to USASMA Class of 1983. He talks about his imprisonment and what he learned from it, including how he survived, advice on how to prepare for the...
The US Army relies on tactical-level leaders, not for their physical warfighting skills, but for their ability to employ cognitive thought during stressful situations. Cognitive tasks include sensing patterns, deciphering complex environments,...
This monograph maintains that the military is only one part of the peace operations environment, and not always the centerpiece. In addition, peace operations occur simultaneously at the tactical, operational and strategic level. This holds true...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
MAJ Serelda Herbin served with the Adjutant General branch in Baghdad, Iraq during 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2011 interview, MAJ Herbin discusses her pre-conceptions about Iraq and how they were disproved...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Major Matthew Dalton discusses serving as the chief on a military transition team in Abu Ghraib, Iraq from March 2006 through March 2007 in...
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...
The attached lessons learned in the tactics of jungle warfare were obtained from the United States Marines and Infantry on Guadalcanal and are a result of interviews which are attached in the document. There is an attachment to this document (a...
In this interview, MAJ Karen Baker, US Army, Logistics, discusses her deployment to Iraq as a Forward Support Company Commander in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Baker discusses what her responsibilities were and talks about...
In this February 2009 interview LCDR Dan Meyerhuber, US Navy Nurse Corps, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB), Shock Treatment Platoon (STP) 8.Fal LCDR Meyerhuber discusses his disappointment with the...
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Harold L. Hockenberry. It is dated: June 1, 1982. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive. The interview was conducted by Harold G. Robbins, for the U. S....
MAJ Christopher L'Heureux served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) as assistant personnel officer (S1) and company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010...
The large battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan has exposed an existing time and distance intra-theater airlift "gap" within the Department of Defense that cannot be met with Army tactical helicopters like the CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Blackhawk or...
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...
MAJ Marc Austin served with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment in Al Kifel, Najaf, Karbala, Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq during 2003 and 2004, as company commander with 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry in Ba'qubah, Iraq during 2006 and 2007...
Staff Sergeant Steven Jackson was a Reserve Component soldier who reenlisted on his fiftieth birthday in 2003 after a sixteen-year break in service. After a valuable predeployment train-up at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, he mobilized at Fort Bragg, North...
With the rise of Al Qaeda and like-minded militant groups, there have been many discussions and misrepresentations of the term Islamic way of warfare. It is important to understand that anything, to be qualified as Islamic, has to have a reference...