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 2004-2005 Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment, Colonel Robert Abrams commanded the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, based primarily in Sadr City. In this interview, he starts off by discussing the predeployment training he...
In this first of three interviews, Chaplain (Major) Merrell D. Knight Jr. talks about his experiences as the chaplain for 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Afghanistan from July 2002 to February 2003 in support of Operation...
From May to September 2002, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shenk (then a major) served as a battalion operations officer with the 101st Aviation Regiment, an assault helicopter unit of Blackhawks and Chinooks....
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...
Responsible for managing the Army's military police force with respect to modernization and deployments, and with sourcing units to meet worldwide obligations, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy L. McConico served as the military police organizational...
In this third of three interviews, Major Kenneth McAdams, US Air Force, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as an aircraft navigator in the 15th Special Operations Squadron from May through July 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He...
Major Hurel Johnson deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom as a volunteer from the US Army Reserve to embed as a trainer and mentor with the Afghan National Army (ANA). Turning over Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 75th Division (Training...
Colonel Don C. Young served as the commander of the 1st Armored Division Engineer Brigade with responsibility for Baghdad, Iraq from May 2003 on. In the interview he discusses the logistics surprises he experienced with port operations in Kuwait....
Colonel John D. "J.D." Johnson deployed to Iraq as the commander of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division (AD). Prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the 2d Brigade, 1st AD was stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Johnson had been to Kuwait before OIF...
From March 2004 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Alan Boyer commanded Fox Troop, 9th Cavalry (F-9 CAV), which operated as the brigade reconnaissance troop for 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. In this interview,...
During his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Craig Schuh worked principally as the operations officer for Task Force 134's Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC), based at the Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca...
Major Elmer Bontrager, in this second of two interviews, talks about being a civil affairs team leader for Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion in Ethiopia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa from March through November 2006 in support of...
The study is a synopsis of treatment and general consideration regarding: 1.) the attitude toward right in private property and English law as to just compensation for property taken for defense of the realm; 2.) the American view and the power of...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the accepted principles and methods of antitank defense, confirm the soundness of these accepted principles and methods or show material reasons for reconsideration of any principles and methods of defense...
Although it is impossible to give a complete analysis of the operations of this section in a paper of limited length, the purpose of this paper does give an examination of some of the activities, methods and reports.
The purpose of this paper tries to reconcile apparently conflicting theories, or to select from the irreconcilable theories the one which seems most logical, or which has the backing of the foremost authorities; and finally to apply these theories...
This study discusses that due to the geographical, climate conditions and the absence of roads, the American wheeled vehicle is unsuited for general use in Central America for combat conditions for supply and evacuation purposes.