From October 2005 through March 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Reed served as the deputy senior advisor for a military transition team (MiTT) assigned to form the 3rd Brigade of the 7th Iraqi Army Division, starting at cadre training and...
As the military liaison officer (LNO) to other government agencies - mainly the CIA and the FBI - Major Melissa Fozman, based at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in Kabul, supported Operation Enduring Freedom from July 2004 through January 2005....
Part two of the interview with Major Karl Knapp covers his August 2004 to March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as the 1st Marine Division assistant supply officer. He discusses his support of division operations and...
Major Tom Vogel, in this second of two interviews concerning his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments, discusses his service as the current operations officer of the joint operations center (JOC) for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task...
Major William Black served as a captain with Coalition Task Force 82 as a battle captain and a company commander, as well as a liaison officer to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan from the period of August 2002 to February...
Major Mike Volpe served as the assistant operations officer, the battalion logistics officer and finally as a rifle company commander for 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry attacking through Iraq to end up in the Mosul region from March 2003 through...
In April 2003, the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) reached the approaches of Baghdad, Iraq, after a record-breaking march from the Kuwaiti border. To test the strength of Iraqi defenses in the capital, 2nd BCT conducted on...
A veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, US Marine Corps Major Dave Banning commanded Alpha Company, 1st Tank Battalion, attached initially to 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment and later to 1st Marines, in theater from...
From September 2005 to August 2006, Major Walter Roberson served as executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT) assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade of the 1st Iraqi Army Division - at the time a tier-one unit that was operating on its...
In this first of two interviews, Major Tom Miner, US Air Force, talks about his deployment as an exchange officer with the Royal Air Force (RAF) Regiment to Basra, Iraq, from April through July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
In this second of interviews, Major Royal Ripley discusses his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, as a member of the communications staff for Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq from April through October 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...
Major Timothy O'Brien served in Operation Iraqi Freedom with a military transition team (MiTT) in 2005-06. Part of a worldwide levy of US Army manpower to support MiTTs, O'Brien came from Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Ranger Training Brigade. He...
Major Corey Crosbie was an observer-controller at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, when a US Army Europe (USAEUR) request for volunteers drew his attention in November 2005. An armor officer, he joined a team headed for...
Major Rick Rabe, a California National Guardsman, served as the operations officer for Task Force Phoenix's Training Assistance Group to the Afghan National Army at the Kabul Military Training Center in 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation...
This paper is a brief of summary of the operations in the Boer War, a brief outline of the topography of the theater of operations and a review of the various marches in the war. A concise analysis of the marches raises the question whether the...
This document is a study of the employment of liaison officers. An endeavor will be made to show the importance of liaison between units, both large and small, the signal communication facilities required, and the employment of liaison officers,...
In this study, the author reveals that the German system of evacuation and hospitalization was defective in its organization. There was not sufficient medical department personnel for the proper operation of aid stations, and treatment and...
This study investigates the role of the United States Army conducting the mission of park custodians of the California National Parks for the period of 1891 to 1914. Limited information on this subject is consolidated as only a few historians have...
This study investigates the role of the Army in combating moonshiners in the mountainous South during Reconstruction. The military committed numerous detachments across the South to aid U.S. marshals and revenue agents in eliminating stills. This...