Part of the XVIIIth Airborne Corps' Staff Judge Advocate's office and stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Major Jeff Bovarnick joined the headquarters in Afghanistan halfway through their deployment - during which they were known as Combined...
A combat engineer officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Major Ed Chamberlayne is a veteran of two Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first from June to December 2003 to Iraq where he was in charge of a forward engineer support team...
Major Tito Villanueva served as the commander of Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2002 and as the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 101st Airborne Division during...
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm "Mac" Martin, an electronics countermeasures officer for Navy EA-6B Prowlers, flew in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001 and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2004 and 2005. Martin was deployed aboard...
Lieutenant Commander Philip Kapusta served on the joint strategic plans and policy staff of Special Operations Command, Central (SOCCENT) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from 2001 through 2003. An...
Major Dale Snider, a project manager with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), was assigned to the engineer staff section of Combined Joint Task Force 180 as the leader of a augmenting forward engineer support team (FEST-A) in support...
Roughly six months after arriving at Allied Joint Force Command-Brunssum, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Guggisberg, in January 2004, deployed to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, and began serving as the ISAF...
From July 2004 through June 2005, Major Kip Korth served as the US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division's liaison officer to the 1st Infantry Division and then subsequently to the 42nd Infantry Division. His higher headquarters was Gulf...
With the Army's Criminal Investigation Division as a shift operations officer when the 9/11 attacks occurred, Major J.D. Branch became part of the FBI's joint operations center for Pentagon recovery that was headquartered at the Pentagon itself and...
As the assistant intelligence officer aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise, Lieutenant Commander Dan Kenda helped coordinate "the overall intelligence for the battle group," which was operating in the Persian Gulf region from October 2003...
Cutting short a one-year tour in Iraq to attend the US Army's Command and General Staff College, US Marine Corps Major John Finch - from January through May 2005 - served in the 2nd Marine Division's G4 logistics shop as the materiel readiness...
"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...
Major Christopher Niesen served as an Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) advisor to the 29th Brigade, Hawaii National Guard in 2004 in support of a deployment to the Horn of Africa (HOA) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
During the run-up and planning portions of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Redding served as the division transportation officer for the 101st Airborne Division and, as such, helped move the Screaming Eagles from Fort Campbell into...
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery - part of the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division - the 68th Chemical Company, commanded by Major Kevin Kugel, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2004 through March...
The commander of Charlie Company, 326th Engineer Battalion - part of 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Task Force Rakkasan) - Major Mark Quander deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January to July 2002 and notably...
Major Thomas Clinton Jr., US Marine Corps, deployed to Afghanistan in April 2004 to lead a 13-man embedded training team assigned to coach, teach and mentor the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Afghan National Army Brigade, which was considered a commando...
Master Sergeant Robert Ochsner II deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from May 2003 through July 2004 with the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop (BRT), part of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. In this interview, he discusses the various...
Judge Advocate General officer Major Laura Klein is a veteran of three Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first - for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I - as the brigade legal advisor for the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kirkuk; the second, as...
A medical evacuation officer by trade, Major Michael Pouncey was tasked, as an individual augmentee, to fill a medical information manager position - his secondary area of concentration - with the 109th Area Support Medical Battalion, an Army...