MAJ Harold Montoya served as knowledge management officer and communications officer with the joint communications section (CJ-6) of Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan (CFC-A) in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007 in support of Operation...
In this May 2009 interview MAJ Kell Glass, Military Police (MP) discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of an Iraqi National Police Transition Team (NPTT) in from August 2007 through August 2008. MAJ Glass discusses his pre-deployment...
In this interview, MAJ Kelvin Pennill, US Army, Engineer, discusses his 12 month deployment to Iraq as an Engineer Project Officer before changing command to company commander for the 18th Engineer Brigade in 2005 through 2006 in support of...
MAJ George Corbari served as an air defense artillery (ADA) officer in Turkey for the initial push into Iraq during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and in Wardak Province, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation...
MAJ Kelly Boian served as commander of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment in Al Dora, Iraq during 2005 and 2006, and on a stability transition team (STT) in Sinjar Province, Iraq during 2009 and 2010, both in support of Operation Iraqi...
In this interview, MAJ Robert Kotek, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the company commander for the 304th Materiel Management Team (MMT) in 2004 through 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kotek discusses...
Having enlisted in the US Army back in 1994 at the age of 33, Captain Lisa Bloom - a licensed and practicing attorney living in Iowa at the time - later became a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division and, after graduating from the...
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...
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Hergenroeder served as the operations officer for 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. His unit's deployment was announced just before they departed for a rotation to the...
Major John Walton commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry around Iskandariyah, Habbaniyah and Fallujah, Iraq from September 2003 through September 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As he explains in this first of two...
In support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Beckert served in three important capacities. First, he was the lead maneuver planner in 1st Armored Division for a working group that was tasked by the V Corps commander General...
Major Tom Vogel, in this second of two interviews concerning his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments, discusses his service as the current operations officer of the joint operations center (JOC) for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task...
Major Lanny Mihelich, Transportation Corps, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a military transition team (MiTT) member in mid-2006. Predeployment training at Fort Riley, Kansas, took place as the 1st Infantry Division returned from OCONUS,...
Hearings before the General Board of the Navy, 1917, vol. 1 and vol. 2 [personnel of Merchant Marine, naval constructor stocker, memorandum for the General Board, aeronautics, wireless, gunnery, fire control, submarine detection, mines and mining,...
An initial historical review of the Balkans provides the setting to help one understand what led to America's involvement in the region. Later the book provides an excellent summary of the Bosnia and Kosovo regions and the consequent US presence...
On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign is the next volume in the US Army's series of studies focused on its operations in Iraq. The first volume, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, showcased Army operations in the...
This thesis contends the debate on whether to embrace a population-centric or enemy-centric counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan detracts focus from building a balanced approach, customized for the human and political landscape in each area of...