A veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan as part of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) - the first from January to August 2004 as the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company operations sergeant, the second from June 2005 to February 2006 as an...
Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
Major Stuart Farris deployed to Afghanistan for the second time in May 2004 as commander of ODA 341 in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group. Once in Afghanistan, he moved his detachment to the village of Zormat in the Paktia Province. Based on...
From July 2005 through July 2006, Major Doug Ross - a field artillery officer in the Kentucky National Guard - supported Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan on an embedded training team (ETT), assigned to the 4th Kandak of the 1st Brigade, 205th...
Major Chris Medina served as the deputy provost marshal for 10th Mountain Division in Kabul from January through December 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the need for negotiation training among those...
In this second of three interviews, Major John Martin talks about serving in the division operations staff fires cell for Combined Joint Task Force-82 in Bagram, Afghanistan, from January 2007 through March 2008 in support of Operation Enduring...
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...
From April 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Stephen Kolouch served as commander of Charlie Company, 65th Engineer Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. He was additionally...
In this interview, MAJ Jennifer Reynolds, US Army, Aviation; discusses her deployment to Afghanistan as a military assistant to the director of operations in RC-South in 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Reynolds describes...
Captain Paul Toolan served as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group while deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. In this interview, he discusses at length four different battles fought by Special Forces (SF) in the...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...
Colonel Mark Neate, British Army, was the joint operations officer for United Kingdom (UK) forces at the British Permanent Joint Task Force supporting International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Afghanistan. From April to October...