Major Lee Williams volunteered to go to Iraq and reported into Fort Riley in June 2006. After two years as an intern to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then attending graduate school at Georgetown, he figured it would be good to get back to the...
Major Dave Krahl volunteered for an information technology job in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the time, he was an ROTC instructor in Macon, Georgia. Unlike his last deployment to Afghanistan, this time he had plenty of notice, almost six...
Major Steve Chong deployed to Kuwait as the commander of Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery - part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - in September 2002 for Operation Desert Spring. It was originally supposed to be a six-month...
In this interview, Sergeant Major Michael Clemens gives a riveting story of Operations Turki Bowl II and Minotaur in Iraq's Diyala Province during his 2006-07 deployment as first sergeant for Bravo Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry. Both operations...
Major Jackie Jones, a signal officer, served in an intelligence billet on the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) staff at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar, beginning in early 2002. As the J2, then deputy J2, Jones helped build the...
Major Jose Martinez, a quartermaster officer, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the commander of the 202nd Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of the 559thQuartermaster Battalion-the only active duty water purification...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, an explosive ordnance demolition (EOD) officer for the US Navy, commanded an EOD task unit within Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines on Zamboanga from November 2005 through January 2006 in support...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, a US Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officer, commanded a detachment from Mobile Unit Two under the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) onboard the USS Bataan and around Kandahar, Afghanistan from...
Major Tom Sachariason served as the operations officer (S3) for the 27th Trans Battalion in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2005 until June 2006. Unlike previous deployments, the battalion had a predetermined predeployment training...
In 2003-2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Specialist David McGuire deployed with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and served initially as lead driver for an uparmored unit running missions and then later moved to the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Major Bobby Haskin served as the battle major for 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division and as the chief of operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2005 to November 2006. Haskin was in an ROTC assignment teaching at Western...
From July 2003 through July 2004, Major Charles Kirchmaier served as the regimental judge advocate with the 75th Ranger Regiment and deployed twice to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He later served on the MNF-I Strategic...
Major James Steven served on a military transition team in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January 2006 to January 2007. Steven reported to Fort Riley and joined the other team members. He discusses the predeployment training received at...
Major Matt Dale served as a strategic planner in the CJ5 plans section at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from February 2006 until September 2006. After being promoted to major, Dale volunteered for a...