In this interview MAJ Mack McCarthy, Infantry, discusses his 15-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. MAJ McCarthy brings up his pre-deployment training, issues the organization faced in leaving so quickly,...
In this interview MAJ Scott Stokoe, Medical Service Corps, describes his deployment to Afghanistan as a member of an embedded training team (ETT). MAJ Stokoe discusses the challenges he experienced in training at Fort Riley, Kansas and how the...
US Air Force (USAF) MAJ Melvin Green III served as a B-52 radar navigator and bombadier over Afghanistan during 2003 and 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this July 2011 interview, MAJ Green discusses preparation for...
The driver for Charlie Team, 2nd Squad, 4th Platoon, 617th Military Police Company - a Kentucky National Guard unit - Specialist Ashley Pullen, in this interview, shares her experiences regarding a complex 20 March 2005 enemy ambush southeast of...
MAJ Carol Hickey served as assistant intelligence officer (S2) and S2 in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and as company commander in southern Iraq during 2010 and 2011, both in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2012...
From March 2004 through February 2005 with 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - Sergeant Major Ron Pruyt served as the operations sergeant major (and at times simultaneously as the battalion command...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Command Sergeant Major Gabriel Berhane served as the CSM for Colonel Joseph DiSalvo's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division whose roughly 4.5 million inhabitant-strong area of operations consisted of...
A veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan as part of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) - the first from January to August 2004 as the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company operations sergeant, the second from June 2005 to February 2006 as an...
Like "stepping through a mountain pass and seeing Shangri-La below" was how Major Robert Bowers described his arrival at the 75th Ranger Regiment and assumption of duties as the regimental judge advocate. "There weren't any money issues there,...
In this December 2012 interview, MAJ AJ Besik, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Security Force Assistance advisor to the Afghan National Police in RC-North in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
In this December of 2012 interview, Mr. Patrick Bremser, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a senior advisor to the Deputy Minister of Administration in the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation...
During the initial ground invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Will Johnson commanded the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB) of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, until he...
While attending training for a new civilian job, Staff Sergeant Douglas Hartwell, an Army Reservist with the 129th Transportation Company, was activated in January 2003. Within days, he began training at Fort Riley and three months later, deployed...
The commander of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Lieutenant Colonel Don Bolduc, in this interview, discusses two significant battles that elements of his unit were involved in while operating in southern Afghanistan in 2005: Siah Chow in...
Major Jeff Tennyson, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor to the New Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. Tennyson's unit, an engineer company, was already mobilized at Fort Leonard Wood when he found out they would...
At the time of this interview the commander of 3rd Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training) - a Reserve unit headquartered in Rochester, New York - Colonel Lawrence J. Kelly played a key role in the 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advisory...
Colonel Jody Daniels, a reservist who served formerly with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq as a member of that division's survey team, and later became the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq joint staff...
An Iowa National Guardsman deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through December 2005, Captain Jason Wisehart commanded Alpha Company, 224th Engineer Battalion and was located initially in the Najaf/Karbala area and then, for...
During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...
An Iowa National Guardsman, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Visser was mobilized in March 2004 and soon after deployed to Afghanistan in command of Task Force 168, a 750-soldier battalion comprised principally of his own 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry...