The intent of this paper is to provide the reader a look into my personal experience as a deployed Noncommissioned Officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I will discuss six months post mobilization training, the actual tour and subsequent extension in...
The army needs to present the American people with a public relations campaign other than recruiting. The army must over whelm the public about Soldiers in war, and what the Soldier has accomplished. Let's air a commercial with Soldiers rebuilding...
The following ethical dilemma discusses an issue that took place while stationed at Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii. This paper focuses on the challenges one Soldier faced regarding the group of Soldiers he called peers, the dilemma that was...
Tallahassee, Fla., and served one combat infantry tour in Vietnam. During a career that spanned nearly 30 years, Sergeant Major McKinney, held every single leadership position up to Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA). Immediately before becoming the...
The last black Medal of Honor winner was SFC William Maud Bryant, a member of the Army's 5th Special Forces Group. For his actions on March 24, 1969, during an encounter with elements of three enemy regiments -a fight that lasted 34 hours -Bryant...
This is a wartime account that describes logistics support operations carried out from homestation at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). I was assigned as the Group (Brigade) S-4 NCOIC for 5th Special Forces...
Standing in my very first Army formation seems just like yesterday. I was just
like any other big city kid at 19, thinking you have got to be kidding. I thought about
why I needed to be there, and not wanting to go back to the place I had called...
This personal experience paper relates to my involvement in the development of the New Zealand Light Armored Vehicle (NZLAV) Company. Change will always be something I will be wary of; however, change can be good, and if managed carefully can...
For almost six hundred days, from the morning of September 11, 2001, until May 1, 2003, the Air Force with its joint and Coalition partners fought the first phase of the global war on terrorism. The war was truly global in scope, waged in one...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2008-01. This is a fictitious story. It could have happened in Iraq or in Afghanistan, it could happen again elsewhere in the world. The screenplay, like...
Turning on the local news report or reading a newspaper about the ongoing war overseas, we see some of the ugly and evil sides of the war on terrorism. Just about every few months there is a story released by the media in which U.S. soldiers are...
The story begins with the assignment of the 3rd Battalion 24th Infantry to Houston, Texas, in 1917 to guard Camp Logan. The 3/24 Infantry Battalion was one of the Regular Army's Black regiments stationed at Camp Furlong near Columbus, New Mexico....
So You Want to Be an Adviser Brigadier General Daniel P. Bolger, U.S. Army Bolger, one of the Army's top advisers in Iraq, offers a vivid description of what it is like to train Iraqi security forces.
It would probably be best to state the first amendment which is the core directive for military and media relationships. 1ST Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or...
MAJ Drew Phillips served as a historian attached to the 82nd Airborne Division during 2007 in Bagram, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this May 2009 interview, MAJ Phillips discusses the lack of any kind of...
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gabel deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the 11th Aviation Regiment's fire support officer from January through June 2003, and then transitioned in theater to become operations officer for the 41st Field...
This is the story of seven June days in 1944 in the life of Walter D. Ehlers. For his bravery, he would receive the nation’s highest military honor. To understand the impact of those seven days, June 4 to June 10, this is his story.