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In this first of two interviews, Major Bill Brodany talks about serving as the fire support officer for 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry in Kuwait and Iraq from October 2002 through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the very...
From December 2003 through June 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Grose served as an operations officer / liaison and project manager with the US Army Corps of Engineers, focused on some $165 million worth of infrastructure...
From August to September 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Grose served as a US Army Corps of Engineers operations officer assigned to the mass graves exhumation effort in Iraq. “We were gathering evidence to convict Saddam...
From March 2007 through June 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Chris Grose served as initially the executive officer and then the operations officer for the 70th Engineer Battalion, which was focused primarily on route clearance...
Major Kevin Stoll served as the Babil Province resident engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Talil, Iraq, from July 2006 through January 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the sheer number of...
From November 2002 through November 2003 in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Alan Bal served as the air defense artillery coordination officer / deputy G3 for US Army Central (ARCENT) and worked variously in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and...
From September 2006 through November 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Alan Bal served as the deputy G9 / civil-military operations planner for the 1st Cavalry Division in Baghdad. In this interview, he discusses first how, back in...
From October 2002 through January 2003, CW4 Nate Jones served as the air and missile defense planner with 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, Task Force Cobra, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Then, from January until May 2003, he moved to Turkey for...
From January to June 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, CW4 Nate Jones served as the air and missile defense planner / advisor for the US Embassy in Kuwait, part of the Office of Military Cooperation. In this capacity, he acted as the...
Major Ray Ramos-Rivera served as the chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological and explosives officer for the force protection cell at Multinational Force-Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2005 through April 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi...
From October 2003 through April 2004 in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Amy Burrows served as the Blue Force Tracker / FBCB2 integrator at Camp Doha, Kuwait. At the time a member of the 35th Signal Brigade on temporary change of...
Major Michael Berdy commanded a company in the 25th Infantry Division in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about accountability issues with ammunition arising from their handoff, the size...
Major Ted Wojtusik commanded Delta Company, 52nd Infantry in Mosul, Iraq, from October 2004 through October 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about unexpectedly taking command of his company six weeks before...
From March through August 2007 in support of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, Major Dennis van Dijk of the Royal Netherlands Army commanded the logistics support detachment for Task Force Uruzgan, based at Camp...
From May 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Tom Rossiter, a Michigan National Guardsman, served as a police mentor in Afghanistan. In this interview, he discusses his predeployment training at Fort Riley;...
Lieutenant Colonel Larry Wilson served as the intelligence officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from August 2003 through August 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the different units which...
From October 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Terry Walter, US Air Force, served as a staff engineer with Combined Security Transitions Command-Afghanistan, based at Camp Eggers in Kabul. In this interview, he...
From January 2004 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Lawrence Camacho served as commander of Delta Company, 15th Forward Support Battalion, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. In this...
From February 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Augusto Bernardo served as the assistant team chief on a national police transition team (NPTT). In this interview, he discusses the predeployment training he...