The 2008 symposium's theme, "The US Army and the Interagency Process: Historical Perspectives," was designed to explore the partnership between the US Army and government agencies in attaining national goals and objectives in peace and war within a...
Major Douglas Keeler served as the ground operations officer, responsible for tracking ground units within their area of responsibility, for the Combined Forces Land Component Command/Third Army in Kuwait during 2003 and 2004 in support of...
This interview with Chaplain (Major) Roy M. Myers, a chaplain clinician, covers his deployment as part of Task Force 134, specifically with the 21st Combat Support Hospital, to Iraq from April 2006 to April 2007. He discusses the religious support...
LTC Anthony Clemente served as intelligence officer with the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division at the Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) Headquarters in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
LTC Anthony Clemente served as intelligence officer with the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division at the Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) Headquarters in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
Doherty, Daniel A. (Daniel Allen); Reed, George E., 1958-,; Dabrowski, John R. (John Raymond); US Army Military History Institute. Oral History Branch.; Army War College (U.S.)
This oral history is a part of the academic year 1999, US Army War College/US Army Military History Institute's Senior Officer Oral History Program, prepared under the auspices of the Institute's Oral History Branch.
Background on the Criminal...
An Iowa National Guard (and former active duty) chemical officer who got herself branch qualified in transportation in order to take command and deploy to Iraq with the 2168th Transportation Company, Captain Jennifer Mlocek took over the unit a...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
MAJ Matthew Gomez served as assistant Support Operations Officer (SPO) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004, company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006, as operations and logistics officer in Kirkuk, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in...
In this first of two interviews, Major Royal Ripley talks about his deployment to Camp Doha, Kuwait, as a member of the communications staff for Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) from November 2001 through May 2002, and from November...
In this interview LTC Hance describes his involvement in the building of his Task Force Headquarters for deployment. He describes how he worked with the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) G1 to identify potential fillers for the unit, and...
Captain Warren Sponsler, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-64 Armor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division began his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment in September 2002 when he arrived in Kuwait. He then crossed into...
Major Jon-Paul Maddaloni deployed as a part of a border transition team (BTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January 2006 to February 2007. In this interview, Maddaloni discusses the transition team's predeployment training and...
In this second of two interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Ciro Stefano talks about his tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as initially the 82nd Aviation Brigade logistics officer (S4) immediately prior to and...
In this first of four interviews, Major Ramiro Santoyo, US Air Force, talks about serving as a troop commander in the 41st Electronic Combat Squadron on Camp Snoopy, Qatar from November 2002 through April 2003 in support of Operation Enduring...
In this interview, MAJ Jason Liddell, US Army, Military Intelligence discusses his deployment to Iraq as the executive officer (XO)/Chief of Staff in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Liddell details his mission...
MAJ Jeffrey McCartney served as the chief of strength reporting during 2007 and 2008 and as personnel officer (S1) in charge of strength management during 2008 and 2009 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and...
The chief of operations and plans for the US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division's Southern District in Iraq - covering the entire battlespace south of Baghdad - Major Mark Geraldi served in this capacity from August 2004 through June...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Captain Amos Nelson of the Iowa National Guard was in command of the 186th Military Police Company. In this interview, he discusses the predeployment training his unit received...
In April 2003, Major Wayne Sodowsky deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the assistant operations officer of the 70th Engineer Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division - a mechanized combat engineer unit. After doing a...