Major Chris Smith, an Australian Army officer, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from May to December 2006 as the operations officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), a light infantry battalion. In the months...
MAJ Terrance Latson served as the battalion logistics officer (S4) with the 2nd Forward Support Battalion (FSB) of the 2nd Infantry Division (ID) in 2004 and 2005 at Forward Operating Base (FOB) TQ, and as company commander of the 226th...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Pedro Agapay discusses serving on a border transition team as a personnel advisor in Nineveh Province, Iraq from May 2005 into 2006...
Lieutenant Colonel (P) L. Barrett Holmes served as the commander of the 20th Engineer Battalion in support of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 until March 2005. Predeployment training consisted of...
This is an oral history transcript between General Ralph E. Haines, Jr. and interviewer Captain William J. Hudson, conducted on 22 APRIL 1976 in San Antonio, Texas, for the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA. General Haines...
A medical evacuation officer by trade, Major Michael Pouncey was tasked, as an individual augmentee, to fill a medical information manager position - his secondary area of concentration - with the 109th Area Support Medical Battalion, an Army...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Eric Puls served initially as commander of the aviation aircraft maintenance troop in 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) and, later, as commander...
From November 2005 through November 2006, Major Mike Volpe served as chief of a military transition team (MiTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, assigned to advise 2nd Battalion, 5th Brigade of the 6th Iraqi Army Division. He begins by...
Major Rob Arnold returned from his deployment with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and joined the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as the military police plans officer in January 2004. In August 2005, Arnold deployed with the 172nd as the...
From October 2002 through January 2003, CW4 Nate Jones served as the air and missile defense planner with 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, Task Force Cobra, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Then, from January until May 2003, he moved to Turkey for...
MAJ Greg Rogers served as the deputy director of operation on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Jalalabad, Afghanistan during 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and as intelligence advisor on a Stability Transition Team...
MAJ Jon Casey served as the battalion operations officer (S4) and company commander with 3/67 Armor Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Baqubah, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2011...
Soon after his redeployment from Bosnia, Robert D. Guy received the unwelcome news that he was slated to fill a vacancy with the soon to mobilize 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry of the Indiana Army National Guard. The 1-293 IN was scheduled to...
Lieutenant Commander Scott Starkey served as the assistant navigator onboard USS Enterprise in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and as pilot and squadron operations officer in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 3 (HS 3) onboard USS Theodore...
Australian Army MAJ Matthew Patching served on a humanitarian aid mission in Pakistan during 2005 after the major earthquake that hit the Nheelum Valley region, in Kabul, Afghanistan during 2008 and in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan during 2010, both in...
"These instructions cover the conduct and analysis of target practices for 37-mm and 40-mm antimotor torpedo boat batteries. These instructions are applicable for the remainder of the year 1942."
This 1938 manual includes instructions governing the conduct of all coast artillery target practices other than small arms; a description of the analysis of drill and target practice; a description of the reports to be rendered by all unit...
In this interview, MAJ Michael Delborrell, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Delborrell discusses how his prior deployments prepared him for his...
In this May 2009 interview MAJ Russ Kinzie, Field Artillery (FA) discusses his surprise deployment to Iraq as a member of the 130th FA Brigade staff as their targeting officer. Not only was MAJ Kinzie not expecting to deploy but he was not...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...