Mr. Gregory Burton, Foreign Service, US State Department, volunteered for duty as a member of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From duty in 2005 as an economic officer with the American Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, Burton...
From February 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Greg Lueders served on a military transition team (MiTT) tasked to coach, teach and mentor the 3rd Motor Transport Regiment (MTR) of the 3rd Iraqi Army Division,...
Major Matthew Payne served as commander of Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division. 1-9 Field Artillery was direct support to the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team in support of Operations Desert...
Major R.J. Garcia served as a company commander in 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment between Camp Udairi, Kuwait, and the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) from January through July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins his...
From April through November 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Thomas Gravlee commanded the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD). In this interview, he discusses the diverse range of explosive ordnance disposal missions his...
Major Tim Bairstow deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a company commander in 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (2/2) in February 2004. His infantry company of "East Coast" Marines flew to Kuwait, drew not only their equipment but more than 70 vehicles...
In this interview, Mrs. Catherine Payne shares her experiences as the wife of a US Army officer, Major Matthew Payne, who has been on two separate overseas deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism: one to Kuwait and then Iraq from...
Ms. Karen Malzahn, a Foreign Service officer, was the deputy principal officer in the US Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she volunteered to serve with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From her commitment in the fall of...
Ms. Linda Specht volunteered for her initial danger-pay assignment in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) from the US Embassy in Cameroon, in March 2004. Her initial posting was to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Specht, after a year...
From March 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jack Midyette commanded Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB), 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, part of the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina...
Major Laura Geldhof, military intelligence branch, deployed to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 from the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade - an Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) unit - at the National Security Agency. Beginning as...
Lieutenant Commander Dan Davidson, US Navy, deployed to the Global War on Terrorism in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) from November 2002 through June 2003. A naval supply officer, Davidson, who received his...
From January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Creed served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - in the Ba'qubah area of...
A geography instructor at West Point, Major Brian Doyle deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in June 2005 on a two-month mission to advise the National Military Academy of Afghanistan "on how to begin a curriculum in geography." "They...
During his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Craig Schuh worked principally as the operations officer for Task Force 134's Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC), based at the Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca...
An officer in the Australian Army, Major Jamie McDonald served as the C3 operations officer in charge of the Joint Operations Center in Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) Headquarters from September 2004 to April 2005. Based at Camp Victory in...
Major Michael Barger, in this first of two interviews, talks about serving as the operations officer for the 13th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion in Kuwait and Iraq from February through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....
Major Michael Barger, in this second of two interviews, talks about commanding the 324th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Company in Balad, Iraq, from May 2005 through May 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses using his...
About his June 2003 through February 2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Todd Hourihan describes himself as having had to "hitchhike" both into and out of war. He begins this interview by telling how his original orders...
In this first of two interviews, Major Gerd Schroeder discusses commanding Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, and later the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), in Baghdad and Iskandariyah from April 2003 though July 2004 in...