The following is a summary of an interview which took place on 25 April 2008 between Bryan Karabaich, a military analyst at the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) and Colonel Michael Ceroli. The summary discusses Colonel Ceroli's deployment as...
In this first of two interviews, Colonel Tony Deane talks about commanding 1st Battalion, 35th Armor in Kuwait and Ramadi, Iraq, from November 2005 through November 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses training with high...
In this second of two interviews, Colonel Tony Deane talks about commanding 1st Battalion, 35th Armor in Kuwait and Ramadi, Iraq, from November 2005 through November 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the effect the election...
Major Andy Liffring was serving as the company commander for Alpha Company, 37th Engineers out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, when he was notified to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Liffring's predeployment training focused on...
Major Austin Pearson assumed command of the 24th Ordnance Company in March 2002 and was notified in November 2002 that his company would be deploying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, to provide support for the 3rd Infantry Division. Pearson's...
Major Dewey Haines was an instructor at the Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood when he was selected to deploy in support of the Global War on Terrorism as the provost marshal at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar. Haines completed predeployment...
Major Dewey Haines had returned from his deployment to Qatar as the provost marshal and force protection officer in August 2004 when, in December 2004, he received an email from his branch manager stating that he had make a permanent change of...
An MP company commander with Headquarters and Service Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group, underneath the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Eric Young of the US Marine Corps deployed to Kuwait in...
From February through May 2004, Major Eric Young of the US Marine Corps deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom for a second time, again as an MP company commander with Headquarters and Service Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group,...
From January to September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Eric Young of the US Marine Corps deployed for a third time to Iraq, this time as the officer in charge of a 50-man personnel retrieval and processing detachment - a...
Major George Walter served as commander for the 173rd Combat Support Company out of Vicenza, Italy, and deployed in March 2003. Walter filled the role as the engineer advisor to the brigade commander. The company was comprised of one sapper...
Major Kerry Dennard served in the 82nd Division Artillery as the S4 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and deployed on 1 September 2003. During this deployment, Dennard was in charge of logistics and ensured the movement of equipment and...
Major Marty Deckard, a Field Artillery officer, deployed to Iraq in February 2007 and redeployed in February 2008 as a border transition team (BTT) chief. Upon being notified of his deployment while instructing at the Captain's Career Course,...
Major Pat Wentz was nearing the end of his tenure teaching ROTC at Niagara University when he volunteered to deploy as an individual augmentee, allowing him to attend the Command and General Staff College post deployment. Wentz was deployed from...
Major Paul Berg served as the personnel officer for 7-101 Aviation Battalion, a Chinook battalion, when he was notified in November 2001 that he was going to be deployed on 180-day orders in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in January 2002....
Major Paul Berg was serving as the company commander for Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 9-101 Aviation Battalion, a Blackhawk battalion, when he was notified in late 2002 of his deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)....
Major Rob Arnold deployed in the early fall of 2003 in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). Arnold was a part of the Army Evaluation Center (AEC), which conducted evaluations on new equipment...
Major Rob Arnold returned from his deployment with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and joined the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as the military police plans officer in January 2004. In August 2005, Arnold deployed with the 172nd as the...
Several significant events of the past decade have demonstrated the importance of tactical integrated air defense. These events include the air war over North Vietnam, the 1973 Middle East War, and the changes in Soviet offensive tactical air...
This study attempts to determine why Hispanic cadets are not being commissioned in the same proportion as their enrollment in ROTC would suggest. Currently, Hispanics comprise four percent of the nation's ROTC cadets, yet only one percent of the...