MAJ Brett Fehrenbacher served as the task force intelligence officer at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kalsu during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this May 2011 interview, MAJ Fehrenbacher discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview, MAJ Troy Schnack, US Army, Field Artillery; discusses his deployment to Iraq as part of the Stability Transition Team (STT) in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Schnack discusses his missions as...
In this interview MAJ Steve Barry discusses his deployment to Iraq during the initial phases of the war. Deployed to Kuwait for six months prior to the kickoff of OIF I, MAJ Barry describes the time he and his tank company spent training in the...
MAJ Alex Ardussi served as advisor to the 5th Logistics Support Battalion (LSB) in the Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Brigade of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (OPM-SANG) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during 2007 and 2008. In this August 2009 interview,...
During his February 2004 to January 2005 deployment to Mosul in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings commanded the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit...
MAJ Seneca Peña-Collazo served as an AH-64 Apache pilot with the 1st of the 501st Attack Aviation Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and with the 3-159 Aviation Task Force at Joint Base Balad during 2008 and 2009, both in support of Operation...
From March through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Scott Himes served as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company commander for 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As part of the division's...
MAJ Joseph Claburn served as the air operations manager with 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at Shabaz Air Base, Jacobabad, Pakistan during 2001 and 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this...
MAJ Ulf Rota served as a planner for the 3/5 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Headquarters (HQ) in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2011 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this September 2011 interview, MAJ Rota discusses...
A veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from February to June 2003 and the second from February to May 2005 - US Marine Corps Major Carlos Urbina, during his initial rotation, served as a communications...
A student at the Judge Advocate General's School from September 2001 through June 2002, Major Charles Lozano then moved to Germany and assumed duties as chief of criminal law for the 1st Armored Division until August of the following year. "The big...
LCDR Matthew McDermott served as operations officer with the 2515th Team Naval Air Ambulance Detachment in Kuwait during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as the strategic communications planner attached to Combined Joint Task...
Major Lawrence Shepherd, battle captain and later battle major for the Third Army, served as a ground operations officer with Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) during his deployment in Kuwait (from October 2003 to April 2004) and Iraq...
Driven by his desire to be deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan, and believing that his Connecticut National Guard unit would not be sent, in late 2004 Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ciesinski got himself transferred to the US Army Reserve's 80th...
Major Charles Abeyawardena has been on three deployments in support of Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this July 2012 interview, MAJ Charles Abeyawardena, US Army, Strategic Plans; FA59; discusses his second deployment experience to Afghanistan as...
A former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and later Bravo Battery commander in 2nd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment - a Patriot missile equipped unit - Major Matthew Rauscher, in January 2003, became the assistant operations...
In this December of 2012 interview, Mr. Patrick Bremser, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a senior advisor to the Deputy Minister of Administration in the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation...
In this January 2013 interview, MAJ Joseph Gardner, US Army, Signal Corps; discusses his second deployment to Iraq as a Signal company commander/Stryker brigade headquarters and headquarters company (HHC) commander for 2-25th Stryker Brigade Combat...
In this interview, MAJ Mike Baileys, US Army, Judge Advocate General, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Staff Judge Advocate for JSOTF in 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Baileys talks about his mission of...
Major Dan Hoeprich has been on three deployments to Iraq in support of Global War on Terror. In this January 2013 interview, MAJ Dan Hoeprich, US Army, Field Artillery (FA); discusses his deployment to Iraq as a battery commander for 3-29 FA, 3d...