The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
Major James D. Sides, a military police officer who graduated from the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in June 2007, sat for this interview by fellow MP officer and CGSC student Major Jeffrey Holmes to capture the former's experiences in...
In this interview with Colonel Michael Moody, conducted by fellow aviator and one of his former company commanders, Major James Tenpenny, the colonel discusses his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences as commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th...
In this interview with Colonel Michael Moody, conducted by fellow aviator and one of his former company commanders, Major James Tenpenny, the colonel discusses his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences as commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th...
Serving as the intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT) in Iraq from January 2005 through January 2006, Major David Longbine was involved in the teaching, coaching and mentoring of the 1st Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division's...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Eric Puls served initially as commander of the aviation aircraft maintenance troop in 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) and, later, as commander...
The chief of patient administration for the 86th Combat Support Hospital attached to Task Force 261, Major Rachele Smith deployed with the unit to Karshi-Kanabad, Uzbekistan, in December 2001, supported Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from there - with...
During his May 2005 through May 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeffrey O'Sadnick served as the joint staff logistics officer (J4) forward for the Iraqi Assistance Group (IAG). Based at Taji where the Phoenix Academy...
The commander of Fox Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from March to June 2003, Major Scott Schumacher was responsible for rear line of communications security and then, following the conclusion of the ground war, for initial stability...
Major David Motes, in this second of three interviews, talks about being the commander of the 102nd Quartermaster Company, a general support petroleum company, in Iraq from March 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As...
In February 2003, US Army Major Jason Lewallen joined 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (UK) as an exchange officer. During his more than three years of service with this British unit, he served variously as the operations officer for 659 Squadron as well...
In charge of the 439th Military Police Detachment and deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from November 2003 to January 2005, Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Sylvester, while in country, ran the Baghdad-area detention facility...
In this first of two interviews concerning his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences, Major Charles Golek discusses his March to July 2003 service as part of the 9th Psychological Operations Battalion in which he worked as a PSYOP planner for the 1st...
In this second of two interviews dealing with his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences, Major Michael Scarpulla discusses his January 2005 through January 2006 deployment as initially the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1st...
Serving as the air boss aboard the amphibious transport ship U.S.S. Trenton - part of a three-ship amphibious ready group operating in 2002 off the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea - Lieutenant Commander Douglas Helton participated in extensive...
In July 2003, Major Tideman Penland - a JAG officer with the 1st Armored Division - arrived in Iraq to serve initially as the senior legal advisor to the division rear based at Camp Dogwood, and his duties included leading and managing the legal...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. discusses his November 2005 through August 2006 deployment to Afghanistan during which he served as chief of the Special...
From the onset of major combat operations in Iraq through his redeployment in June of 2003, Major John Cochran ran the current operations cell as the 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment's assistant operations officer. In this first of two interviews...
From March to May 2003, Major Michael Doherty served as the Headquarters Support Company (HSC) commander for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once in northern Iraq working with the Kurdish Peshmerga,...
In this the first of four interviews concerning his multiple Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Jack Noyes discusses his January through May 2002 service with Task Force K-Bar (South), located at Masirah Island, Oman, in support of...