Having assumed command of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on D-Day, 6 June 2003, Colonel Joseph Buche initially deployed around the Tall Afar border region before his unit redeployed on short notice to the Al Qaim...
In this January 2013 interview, MAJ Douglas Graham, US Army, Infantry discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as both company commander and the commander of the Joint Special Operations Team for 2d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment in 2011 in support...
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Blaise Cornell-d'Echert was involved in the initial creation of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) in Iraq starting in July 2003. In this interview, he talks about how the initial structuring of the...
A US Army Reserve quartermaster officer assigned to 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment - an institutional training unit headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia - First Lieutenant Mitchell Wander was mobilized in May 2005, assigned to the 80th...
Major Roger Swartwood, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as the leader of a battalion advisor support team (AST) to the new Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. He begins this interview by discussing the predeployment training...
During his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, "I was with III Corps," said Lieutenant Colonel Mark Tolmachoff, "which at the time was the base element of Multinational Corps-Iraq." In this interview focusing initially on...
The operations officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from April through July 2003 and then, from July though August 2004 the division deputy G3, Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Hensley begins this interview by discussing his visibility on...
Serving on the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (IGFC) from January 2006 through January 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Whitney was originally slated to be the C5 advisor. This, however, was an "ill-advised...
Major Douglas Keeler served as the ground operations officer, responsible for tracking ground units within their area of responsibility, for the Combined Forces Land Component Command/Third Army in Kuwait during 2003 and 2004 in support of...
Staff Sergeant Jared Sargent was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-12 CAV for the duration of his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2004 through March 2005. They arrived just in time for a very heavy fight with the Mahdi...
From January 2006 through January 2007, Major Stephen Burr - a military intelligence officer by branch - served on the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (IGFC). In this interview, he begins by discussing...
Master Sergeant Robert Ochsner II deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from May 2003 through July 2004 with the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop (BRT), part of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. In this interview, he discusses the various...
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Kendrick was deployed to Iraq for almost 14 months from January 2004 to February 2005 and was initially the battalion executive officer for the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, a tank battalion in 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Major Chris Shields served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an assistant effects coordinator in the 3rd Infantry Division's fires and effect cell, in which he oversaw and managed all counterfire...
Lieutenant General R. Steven Whitcomb has commanded Third Army and Army Forces, United States Central Command in Iraq and Kuwait from October 2004 through the present in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Whitcomb begins the interview by...
Major David Motes, in this second of three interviews, talks about being the commander of the 102nd Quartermaster Company, a general support petroleum company, in Iraq from March 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As...
During the course of his February 2003 to February 2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Robert A. Mason had two company commands in the 101st Airborne Division: the first, until May 2003, with Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion,...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brann Calvetti served as the field grade commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 501st Special Troops Battalion. In this interview, he...
From March through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Dan Williamson served as the officer in charge of a mobile training team (MTT) tasked with teaching combat service support members of Afghan National Army...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Dan Williamson discusses his June 2006 through June 2007 deployment to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, during which he served as executive officer for the 24th...