Working in the future plans section of the US Central Command J6 - joint staff communications - during 2003-2004, US Air Force Major Robert Borja was involved with "planning systems related to command, control, communications and computers for...
Without argument or doubt, the United States Air Force has earned distinction as the world’s greatest Air Force (AF)! The renown successes of the AF beginning with World War I, through the conception of jet aircraft during the Korean War, the...
With the Iraqi National Joint Operations Center (NJOC) from June 2005 through February 2006, Major Paul Struck served as the support operations officer and, in this capacity, worked to "bring the Iraqi police and military at the national level to...
With the 720th Military Police Battalion during its June 2003 to March 2004 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Rangel served as the executive officer. For his second tour, from June 2004 to February 2005, Rangel was executive...
With the 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, Major Chris Wynder served as deputy division provost marshal from May 2003 to February 2004. "I was the go-to guy in terms of managing what the section did on a daily basis," he said. Besides...
With 5th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, Major David Chiarenza initially served as a company commander and then moved to become a brigade battle captain and, as needed, brigade planner and current operations...
While working as the Phoenix, Arizona area commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Los Angeles District, Major James DeLapp deployed to Iraq and served from May to November 2004 as the operations officer for the Corps' Camp Victory...
When Lieutenant Colonel David Seigel was first alerted for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was serving as the executive officer (XO) of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He...
We have in the military what we like to call the "CNN Effect", in other worlds everything we do could potentially end up on the evening news. We cannot allow our subordinates or our senior leadership to be the lead story on the evening news or the...
Waiting for Godot in Iraq. F.J. Bing West; As the war in Iraq enters a period of uncertainty, a highly regarded former Assistant Secretary of Defense addresses the four biggest challenges facing our military effort.
USS HUE CITY (CG 66) deployed August 1, 2004 for the North Arabian Gulf in defense of Operation Enduring Freedom. We arrived on station and assumed the duty as JTF 53, under which we were responsible for the Iraqi oil terminals ABOT and KABOT, the...
USMC Maj Timothy Teed serves in the Marine Corps Active Reserve (AR) program and in that capacity helped to stand up the first designated mortuary affairs unit of the Marine Corps. In this November 2010 interview, Maj Teed discusses what went into...
USMC Maj Jason Gaddy served as the battalion logistics officer (4) with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Korean Village (KV) during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In...
US Navy CDR Richard Halloran served as a contracting officer tasked with overseeing contracts to build public health centers in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and on an oil terminal in the Arabian Gulf during...
US Marine Corps Maj Eric Penrod served as company commander of Charlie Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion (CEB) in Fallujah, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In the first of two February 2009 interviews,...
US Air Force Major Jasen Beckman served as an aircraft commander of a B-1B Lancer during 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this February 2010 interview, MAJ Beckman...
US Air Force Maj Bart Yates served as a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator out of Jacobabad, Pakistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and again operating Predators out of Tallil Air Base, Iraq during 2003 and...