Within hours of the September 11th attacks, many leaders of the 82nd Airborne Division determined that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were behind these terrorist attacks. The war in Afghanistan was inevitable. As a First Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne...
As first Sergeant of a Headquarters and Headquarters Company during Operation Iraqi
freedom II, I was responsible for a Mortar and Scout Platoon and six sniper sections as
maneuver. I also had the regular Battalion Sections Organic 10 a Heavy...
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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...
Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that achieving victory in today's ideological conflicts is a task beyond the capabilities of any single U.S. agency. It demands that the efforts of multiple agencies be brought together and coordinated in a whole of...
Part two of his interview regarding his Global War on Terrorism deployments covers Major William B. Burley's 2005 service in Afghanistan as a civil affairs team leader in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He discusses the wide variety of...