This paper describes my time as a camp commandant in Bagram, Afghanistan. I list significant events that occurred and lessons learned from each. I explain how the commandant supports the overall mission by maintaining the camp. Specifically how I...
Operations and Readiness Directorate Office; Anderson, Gerald O.; Silano, Robert A.
This Department of the Army after action report deals with the U.S. Army involvement in and support of the Indochinese refugee program. Covering the period from 1 April 1975 to 1 June 1976, it focuses on the role of the Army Staff in crisis...
During an 8-month period ending in December 1975, over 140,000 refugees were processed under the Indochina Refugee Program. These people were evacuated from Cambodia and South Vietnam, temporarily cared for at Department of Defense refugee camps in...
This is a "battle study" written purposely from the perspective of the Marines, soldiers, and sailors who fought at an-Najaf in August 2004. The narrative that follows documents the importance of the close relationship between political and...
This is a story about Marines and a tough mission: the Marines of I and II Marine Expeditionary Forces were deployed to Iraq during 2004–2006 and confronted a violent insurgency and a nation in chaos. Though the Marines came to fight—they did...
Training additional specialists to protect against attrition is a sound policy. Replacements are not usually high-grade specialists. Leaders brought up in the unit are more valuable than last minute replacements. Replacements without a specialty...
MAJ Yvonne Miller served as protocol officer with the 89th Military Police (MP) Brigade in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during 2002, as commander of the 410th MP Company in Qatar during 2002 and 2003, and as deputy long-range planner with the 89th MP...
MAJ David Jaillite served as the assistant operations officer (S3) for the 181st Transportation Battalion in Balad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004; as the support operations officer (SPO) with the 16th Corps Support Group (CSG) in Tallil, Iraq during...
US Air Force Major Jasen Beckman served as an aircraft commander of a B-1B Lancer during 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this February 2010 interview, MAJ Beckman...
MAJ Manuel Garcia served as the battalion fire direction officer (FDO) with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery (FA) Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division (AD) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
MAJ William Rodebaugh served as the battalion logistics officer (S4) with the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division in Uzbekistan and Bagram, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this February...
In this interview, MAJ Edward Downey, US Army, Transportation, discusses his 12 month deployment to Iraq as a part of a MiTT for the 4th ID in 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Downey discusses how his pre-deployment training...