A 2002 high school graduate, Sergeant Melanie Claggett had just started attending Cottey College, a two-year women's college in Neosho, Missouri, when she was activated with the 1011th Quartermaster Company in February 2003. Claggett, trained in...
A veteran of two deployments to Iraq - during OIF I and OIF II - Major William Highberger was assigned first to Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, as a civil affairs Alpha Team leader in support of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After the...
Assigned to the HHC, 62nd Medical Brigade, as chief of current operations in the S3 shop, Major Anthony McQueen served in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM with a fully mobile unit for five months beginning in March 2003. Tasked with getting the Tactical...
From October 2003 to April 2004, Major Douglas Schenck worked in the J5 at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. In his duty position as ground operations officer, Schenck dealt directly with Pacific Rim countries, such...
Major Lawrence Shepherd, battle captain and later battle major for the Third Army, served as a ground operations officer with Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) during his deployment in Kuwait (from October 2003 to April 2004) and Iraq...
While attending training for a new civilian job, Staff Sergeant Douglas Hartwell, an Army Reservist with the 129th Transportation Company, was activated in January 2003. Within days, he began training at Fort Riley and three months later, deployed...