In this second of three interviews, Major Mark Boeke discusses his deployment to Iraq as the communications officer for 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment from February through April 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about the...
From May 2005 through May 2006, Major Omega Harris served as a battalion military transition team (MiTT) leader in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he discusses his predeployment training, his working relationship with the...
Major Lanny Mihelich, Transportation Corps, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military transition team (MiTT) member in mid-2006. Predeployment training at Fort Riley, Kansas, took place as the 1st Infantry Division returned from OCONUS,...
From June through November 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Doug Lilly - a foreign area officer - supported Operation Enduring Freedom from Kabul as the regional engagement cell chief of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan's political-military integration...
Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Charlie Company commander, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry from Fort Riley, Kansas. Preparing for a National Training Center rotation, his battalion began training in July 2003 relying on...
Major Gerald H. Green commanded Charlie Company, 203rd Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy) of the Missouri Army National Guard in Baghdad. Green had been in command for two and half months before receiving orders for mobilization and deployment to...
From March to August 2004, Major Kevin Kennedy served as the executive officer of 1st Battalion, part of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, and spent the entirety of his nearly six-month deployment in downtown Baghdad, primarily the...
Between June 2004 and June 2007, Major Peter Vien went on three separate deployments from three to six months in length with the Third Army C7 engineer section, during which he spent time in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar and Uzbekistan...
From March 2004 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Alan Boyer commanded Fox Troop, 9th Cavalry (F-9 CAV), which operated as the brigade reconnaissance troop for 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. In this interview,...
In this first of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major John Athey discusses his post-9/11 service as a theater collection manager at Pacific Command (PACOM), during which he was initially chief of the measurement...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major John Athey discusses his May 2005 through May 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of the Iraqi Assistance Group's ministry...
Major Mark Gillespie served as the assistant team leader on a military transition team (MiTT) around Baghdad from May 2005 through June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the focus of predeployment...
Major Doug Schlereth, a member of the Army National Guard, served in various roles as a liaison officer (LNO), including advising an Afghan kandak, throughout Afghanistan from February 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Major Ryan Samuelson served as the pilot of a KC-135R in the 407th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron flying out of Thumrait Airbase, Oman, from January through May 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Flying...
From January to June 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Teresa Schlosser, US Army Corps of Engineers, served as the resident engineer in charge of the Bagram runway. At the time, USACE's Bagram resident office was...
In his duty position as S1 of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Karl Strellner ran the brigade rear command post co-located in the Brigade Support Area. Always within 30 kilometers (but...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...
From November 2006 through November 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major William Arnold served as the executive officer, logistics advisor and some-time intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT), tasked with force...
Major John "Red" Walker, an F-16 pilot for the US Air Force (USAF), flew Harrier GR7s in the Royal Air Force's (RAF) 1 Squadron from Al Jaber Airfield, Kuwait, in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins the interview by discussing...
Lieutenant Commander Dan Davidson, US Navy, deployed to the Global War on Terrorism in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) from November 2002 through June 2003. A naval supply officer, Davidson, who received his...