Headquarters, Department of the Army; Headquarters, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
This manual is a dual-Service US Army and US Marine Corps publication introducing new terms and definitions and updating existing definitions as reflected in the latest editions of Army field manuals and Marine Corps doctrinal, warfighting, and...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
Captain Alain Samples started her career in the military as a transportation platoon leader in a National Guard transportation company. Samples was subsequently selected to attend flight school, after which she was assigned to a National Guard air...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brann Calvetti served as the field grade commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 501st Special Troops Battalion. In this interview, he...
Given the fact that Special Forces detachments cause effects at the strategic and operational levels of war in the GWOT, it is imperative that SF detachment commanders are adequately prepared to develop a comprehensive understanding of the...
I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January of 1983 and shipped to Boot Camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in September of 1983. I served as an avionics technician in VMA(AW) 533, deployed to the Mediterranean on the USS
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In 2007, a Brigade Combat Team Deployed to Baghdad, Iraq to take on a mission it had not trained for: Garrison Command. In all the training, reacting to indirect fire was only a Warrior Core Task at the individual Soldier level. In the early days...
In April, 2008 the 1-134 TH FA RGT took over the mission of the SECFOR South under the command of the Area Support Group Kuwait. The battalion performed the SECFOR operations at the Kuwait Naval Base, Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) and the Area...
In this end of tour interview, LTC Dave Vesper devotes the majority of the narrative to discussing his experiences commanding the 1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once in theater, LTC Vesper found his...
In this February 2011 interview MAJ Mark O'Neill, Infantry, discusses his 2006 deployment to Afghanistan as a member of an embedded training team (ETT) falling under the 41st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) from the Oregon National Guard. Called up...
In this interview, MAJ Andrew Mack, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Mack talks about his move into the four locations of his missions and...
In this interview, MAJ Misti Froydma, US Army, Logistics; discusses her deployments to Iraq as the company commander in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Froydma discusses a typical day in theater and describes the...
In this interview, MAJ Steven Miskinis, US Army, Military Intelligence MI); discusses his deployment to Iraq as the Night Operations Battle Captain in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Miskinis discusses a typical...
In this June 2009 interview MAJ Shawn Umbrell discusses his 2006 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Umbrell discusses his extensive pre-deployment training with Charlie Company as their commander and then just a...
In this May 2009 interview MAJ Russ Kinzie, Field Artillery (FA) discusses his surprise deployment to Iraq as a member of the 130th FA Brigade staff as their targeting officer. Not only was MAJ Kinzie not expecting to deploy but he was not...
January 29, 2004 eight Soldiers lost their lives in the service of their country. Logistics Task Force 129 based in Bagram, Afghanistan had the responsibility of Mortuary Affairs. The Mortuary Affairs team consisted of three Soldiers, a Staff...
Joint doctrine places the staff cognizance for engineering under J4 Logistics by emphasizing sustainment engineering functions. The Uniform Joint Task List identifies operational requirements for combat engineering functions, but no joint doctrine...
MAJ David Lemont served as battle captain for the base defense operations center (BDOC) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 and as battalion executive officer (XO) in Kuwait during 2010 and 2011, both in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). ...
MAJ John Cherry served as the operations officer (S3) with the 2-395th Field Artillery (FA) battalion during 2004 and 2005 at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2008 interview, MAJ...
MAJ Josh Gillen served as the headquarters and headquarters company (HHC) commander for Alpha Company, 82nd Signal Battalion in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In the second of two February...