In this second of two interviews, Major Latassha Moore talks about serving as the chief of a military transition team for the Iraqi’s 4th Motorized Transportation Regiment in Kirkuk, Iraq from June 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation...
In this fourth of four interviews, Major J.T. Torrain talks about serving as the team chief for a military transition team (MiTT) in Taji and Samarra, Iraq, from May 2006 through April 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the...
Major Song Huynh served on an embedded training team (ETT) for the 203rd Corps of the Afghan National Army in Gomar, Afghanistan, from January 2007 through January 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the...
Major Ryan Morgan commanded Charlie Company, then Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment from Kuwait to Mosul, Iraq from February 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this...
Mr. Sean Carlson served as an intelligence analyst as part of a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) team in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). In this October 2009 interview, Mr. Carlson discusses his rapidly...
MAJ Jon Pendell served as an information operations officer with 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (ID) Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) in Mosul, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 and as the regimental S7 and Public Affairs Officer (PAO) for 2 Stryker...
In this interview, MAJ Robert Kellam, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a MiTT Chief in 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kellam describes his immediate thoughts when he arrived in country, a typical week...
CPT Polyniak discusses his deployment in support of the Global War on Terror from 22 March thru 10 November 2008 at Joint Base Balad (JBB). This deployment was CPT Polyniak's fourth, and he provides many interesting contrasts with his earlier...
CSM Watson discusses his preparations for mobilization, and his interactions with the HHC First Sergeant (1SG) and Brigade Operations Sergeant Major. CSM Watson relates struggling with deciding when to notify his employer and family about the...
MAJ Steven Wallace served with as a platoon leader, adjutant (S1), executive officer (XO) and company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division in various areas in Afghanistan during 2002-2003 and again in 2006-2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
In this interview CPT Wayne Sanders, Military Intelligence (MI), discusses his deployments to Iraq in 2004 and 2006. A trained SIGINT officer CPT Sanders deployed initially with his platoon in 2-14th CAV from the 1-25th Stryker Brigade Combat Team...
In this interview, MAJ Michael Harris, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as the J3 Chief of Operations/Sr battle captain in 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Harris discusses his experience with...
CH (MAJ) Robert Allman served as battalion chaplain with the 10th Transportation Battalion in Kuwait during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2010 interview, MAJ Allman discusses how he got past his own personal...
MAJ Karst Brandsma served as commander of the 258th Military Police (MP) Company in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2010 interview, MAJ Brandsma discusses the role of military police...
In this interview, MAJ James Morgan, US Army, Adjutant General (AG); discusses his deployment to Iraq as the personnel officer (S1) from 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Morgan discusses a typical day in theater...
MAJ Nathaniel Crain served as intelligence officer (S2) with the 5th Engineer Battalion in Taji, Iraq during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this January 2011 interview, MAJ Crain discusses the shock of reaching Baghdad so...
In this interview, MAJ Daniel Rossi, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the operations officer (S3) in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Morgan talks about his missions and the interaction he...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ Steven Coston, an aviation intelligence officer, discusses his deployment to Iraq with the 1st Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion in July 2005. MAJ Coston relates his quick integration into the unit and immediate...
In this interview, MAJ Jason Freidt, US Army, Armor; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the company commander in 2005 through 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Freidt discusses a typical day in theater and describes his role...
On a 120-day assignment - from March to June 2005 - as the J1 personnel officer for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, which encompassed most of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Major Rod Boles was based at...