In this second of two interviews, Major Joe Hansen talks about serving as the division support brigade assistant logistics officer for the 24th Corps Support Group from January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
From February 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Steven Fahlenkamp served as HHB commander for the 101st DIVARTY, and from April 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, he...
From August 2006 through November 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Christian Meko, M.D., served as the brigade surgeon for 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, based in Iraq's Salah ad Din Province. In this interview, Meko - a...
Major Brian Patterson, US Air Force, served as the air support operations center chief for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, from May through August 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
A cavalry team chief with 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support), Fort Stewart, Georgia, Major Brian Kerns conducted training and assisted the mobilization of National Guard units deploying to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq from April 2002...
In this interview, Major Nat Edwards discusses his command of Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, part of the 1st Cavalry Division, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about the predeployment training his unit went...
In this first of two interviews, Major Brian Russell, US Marine Corps, talks about commanding a military transition team in Anbar Province from December 2006 through December 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi freedom. He discusses how the...
In this second of two interviews, Major Brian Russell, US Marine Corps, talks about commanding a military transition team (MiTT) in Anbar Province from December 2006 through December 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses...
In this second of two interviews, Major Anthony Nelson talks about commanding a military intelligence company in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses additional predeployment training that his human...
Chief Warrant Officer John Groseclose served as the officer in charge of the tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) team section for Charlie Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq, through 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
From September 2006 through September 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Tracy Barker, an Army National Guardsman, served as the maneuver trainer on a brigade military transition team (MiTT). In this interview, he discusses his...
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kenneth Kilbourne served as the officer in charge of the tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) section of Alpha Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion, in Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this...
In this first of two interviews, Major Rafael Saenz talks about commanding Alpha Battery, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery in Ad Dawr, Iraq, from April 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the nightmare of...
In this first of four interviews, Major J.T. Torrain talks about serving as the assistant operations officer for the 16th Engineer Battalion, and commanding the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the same battalion, in Kuwait and Baghdad,...
In this first of two interviews, Major Joseph Edwards talks about serving as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery and as a liaison officer for the 3rd Infantry Division to the 101st Airborne Division from Kuwait...
In this interview with 7th Special Forces Group member Major Richard F. (whose last name was withheld at his request), he discusses being in Special Forces training on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath, the value of said training, how his group’s...
In this first of a two-part interview covering his 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Jason Shelton talks about being a team leader from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion and working in Uruzgan Province...
In 2007-2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brad Burns of the Kansas Army National Guard served as commander of the 731st Truck Company, based at Camp Adder, Talil Airbase, in Iraq. In this interview, he discusses his company’s...
From May to July 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines, Major Daniel Alan Leach served as group veterinarian for the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). In this interview, he discusses the conduct of veterinary civic assistance...
In this first of two interviews, Major Zac Vann talks about serving as the assistant maneuver planner for the 3rd Infantry Division from Kuwait to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses watching a SCUD missile...