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 Jackson Kurtzman has made numerous deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism. In this interview, he discusses his early training and positions within the Army. He then recounts where he was on September 11, 2001, and his initial...
During his 2003-04 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Milt Kinslow served as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as the south-central regional operations officer, responsible for the governorate teams in the Iraqi...
From March through November 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Bill Adler served on a 10-man advisor support team (AST) made up of personnel from the Grizzly observer-controller (OC) team at the Combat Maneuver Training Center in...
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...
Lieutenant Colonel Daryle Hernandez served as the executive officer for 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the Al-Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, from March 2004 to March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). When the squadron arrived in...
From May to July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Allan Selburg commanded Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division - based at Adhamiyah Palace in northeast Baghdad. In this first...
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...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brann Calvetti served as the field grade commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 501st Special Troops Battalion. In this interview, he...
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...
Serving in 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment - part of the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - Major Charles O'Brien commanded a tank company during (and for roughly one month following) the conclusion of...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Craig Bukowski served as the medical plans officer for 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, based in south Baghdad. In this second of two interviews concerning...
From March through September 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major James Swift commanded the 426th Forward Support Battalion's supply company - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. In this comprehensive interview,...
In this interview, Mrs. Catherine Payne shares her experiences as the wife of a US Army officer, Major Matthew Payne, who has been on two separate overseas deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism: one to Kuwait and then Iraq from...
Ms. Karen Malzahn, a Foreign Service officer, was the deputy principal officer in the US Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she volunteered to serve with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From her commitment in the fall of...
From March 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jack Midyette commanded Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB), 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, part of the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina...
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...
From January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Creed served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - in the Ba'qubah area of...
An officer in the Australian Army, Major Jamie McDonald served as the C3 operations officer in charge of the Joint Operations Center in Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) Headquarters from September 2004 to April 2005. Based at Camp Victory in...
Major Michael Barger, in this first of two interviews, talks about serving as the operations officer for the 13th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion in Kuwait and Iraq from February through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....