A veteran of seven deployments to Italy for Bosnia and Kosovo, U.S. Air Force Major David Harris flew 20 combat missions as an MC-130H Talon II navigator in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Forward based out of Romania, Harris' 7th Special...
About to join the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - "the most deployed unit within special operations" - it came as little surprise to Major Ben Sunds that, following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, "their...
Air Force MAJ Allen Griffis served as a Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) during the initial air assault of Afghanistan after 9/11 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and as an Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO) with the US Army 1-71 CAV...
An assistant operations officer in the 1st Attack Helicopter Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment upon deploying in February 2003 in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Captain Jamie Wallace assumed command of Bravo Company shortly after arriving in...
An experienced emergency room physician who joined the Florida Army National Guard after 9/11 "to serve my country," Major (Dr.) Lisa DeWitt - by November 2004 - was in Iraq voluntarily serving as the surgeon for 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry...
An operations officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division, Major John Henderson - himself a licensed engineer - supported Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from January to June 2004. Working out of Victory Base, Henderson's office...
As an All Source Intelligence Technician with 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, from March 2003 to March 2004, Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Gray provided the brigade commander, Colonel James Hickey, with tactical intelligence...
As chief of the mission planning cell for the 5th Bomb Wing out of Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Major Kris Perry deployed in February 2003 to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Base at Fairford, England, as part of an advanced detachment to establish...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Colonel Christopher Mitchell discusses serving as the division team chief on a military transition team in Mosul, Iraq in 2008 in support of...