In this second of two interviews, Major David Creasman discusses his deployment in the Ramadi area of Iraq as the intelligence officer for the division artillery (DIVARTY) of the 82nd Airborne Division from 2003 through 2004. A major challenge he...
The Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) commander for 4-64 Armor, part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division in 2002-2003, Major Jeff Powell deployed with his company to Kuwait in November 2002 to join the CONUS Crisis Response Force...
Lieutenant Colonel Wes Gillman was the commander of 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry, which is part of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He deployed in January 2003 and redeployed in August 2003. Before...
In this first of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Gregory Trahan discusses his command of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan beginning in...
Coming from the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss, where he'd been an instructor, Major Michael Melito - during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - was assigned as an individual augmentee to 1st Battalion, 3rd Air...
In this second of three interviews, Major Patrick Pascall discusses his deployment as an operations officer and team leader for the 49th Civil Affairs Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq, from January through November 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...
This second of three interviews with Major Jason Warner reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences covers his May to August 2003 deployment to Afghanistan as the intelligence officer for 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry (part of 2nd Brigade,...
In this second of three interviews, Major Kenneth McAdams of the US Air Force talks about his deployment as an aircraft navigator and the squadron training officer as part of the 15th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) at Ali Al Salem Airbase,...
Major Robert McCaskell was an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) officer, assigned as the operations officer of the Support Battalion of the 196th Infantry Brigade, US Army Pacific (USARPAC) in 2003 when his participation in support of the Global War on...
In this third of three interviews, Major Tom Chalkley, US Marine Corps, discusses his deployment to Habbaniyah, Iraq, as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) throughout 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Chalkley's team was...
Major William Moen deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. Having taken command in May 2003, Moen and his company experienced some soldier and leader turbulence in preparing...
In command of the Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD) out of the 110th Military Intelligence Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Major Robert Schexnayder deployed to Afghanistan from July 2003 through May 2004. Initially working in the border...
Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Charlie Company commander, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry from Fort Riley, Kansas. Preparing for a National Training Center rotation, his battalion began training in July 2003 relying on...
Major Matthew Crystal was deployed from March through July 2003 to Operation Iraqi Freedom as the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 16th Engineer Battalion, supporting the 1st Armored Division. In this interview, Crystal...
During Major William W. "Whit" Johnson's first deployment to Iraq from January to May 2003, he was attached to the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, part of Task Force Tripoli, and commanded a company-sized...
In December 2001, Major Douglas Smith, an Active Guard Reserve soldier, was mobilized along with the 160th Military Police Battalion - an enemy prisoner of war/civilian internee unit - for service in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Over roughly the...
Captain Pamela S. Alexander worked in the III Corps communications section during her deployment to Iraq and, at mid tour, became company commander for 313th Signal Company in Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. As a company commander she...
CW2 Branam was the senior network tech for Combined Joint Task Force-76/25th Infantry Division while deployed from March 2004 to March 2005 at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. He discusses the issues they had to overcome in all three phases:...
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...