A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
In this interview geared towards analyzing and better understanding the battlefield relationships between US conventional and special operations forces, Colonel Mark Neuse, a civil affairs (CA) officer, shares insights gleaned from his extensive...
Major Jeff Tennyson, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor to the New Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. Tennyson's unit, an engineer company, was already mobilized at Fort Leonard Wood when he found out they would...
Colonel Charles Augustus "Gus" Stafford was the commander of 3rd Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support) at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from 2004 through 2005 when the 98th Division (Institutional Training) received their predeployment training...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Scott McConnell served as the G3 advisor to the 5th Iraqi Army Division in 2004-2005. In this interview, he begins by describing the predeployment training at Camp Atterbury,...
Brigadier General James Schwitters was the commanding general of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team from June 2004 to June 2005 when the 98th Division (Institutional Training) deployed to Iraq to assume the foreign army training and...
Upon arriving in theater in November 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Christian of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) was under the impression that he was to be the officer in charge of developing and standing up an engineer school for the...
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...
Sergeant Tyler Colly served as a Bradley gunner in Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry during the battle for Fallujah in November 2004. Assigned as the gunner on the executive officer's vehicle, he describes First Lieutenant Edward Iwan by...
Assigned to 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Major Mike Kirkpatrick served as the Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (HHT) commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom I, moving into Iraq on 13 May 2003. In this interview, he begins by...
Major John Cole served as the commander of Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division - during the initial offensive of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. In this interview,...
Performing a mission readiness exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center when 9/11 occurred, Major Brian Harthorn - then the commander of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division - tells how he...
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm "Mac" Martin, an electronics countermeasures officer for Navy EA-6B Prowlers, flew in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001 and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2004 and 2005. Martin was deployed aboard...
Lieutenant Commander Philip Kapusta served on the joint strategic plans and policy staff of Special Operations Command, Central (SOCCENT) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from 2001 through 2003. An...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier assigned to the 4-80th Chemical Training Battalion when he received orders sending him with the 80th Division (Institutional Training) on a military transition team (MiTT) to Sinjar, Iraq in 2005-2006, Sergeant First...
Cutting short a one-year tour in Iraq to attend the US Army's Command and General Staff College, US Marine Corps Major John Finch - from January through May 2005 - served in the 2nd Marine Division's G4 logistics shop as the materiel readiness...
"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...
Major Christopher Niesen served as an Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) advisor to the 29th Brigade, Hawaii National Guard in 2004 in support of a deployment to the Horn of Africa (HOA) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
Major Jeffrey Witt served as a plans officer for logistics plans at the Multinational Brigade-Northwest headquarters in the Nineveh, Irbil and Dahuk Provinces of Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Witt describes in the interview some of...
An operational detachment alpha (ODA) commander with 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Captain Brandon Griffin, in this interview, discusses in remarkable detail and from firsthand participatory knowledge the 7 August 2005 Battle of Mari...