In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
During Major William W. "Whit" Johnson's first deployment to Iraq from January to May 2003, he was attached to the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, part of Task Force Tripoli, and commanded a company-sized...
From August 2004 through March 2005, Major Michael Monti served as operations officer for 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines (part of the 1st Marine Division) which was responsible for an Al Anbar Province area along the Euphrates River spanning from the...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
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...
A veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, US Marine Corps Major Dave Banning commanded Alpha Company, 1st Tank Battalion, attached initially to 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment and later to 1st Marines, in theater from...
In this second of two interviews reference his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences - the first one covering his March to September 2005 deployment - Major John Polidoro, US Marine Corps, discusses his August 2006 through March 2007 tour as, again,...