Journal of the staff officers, Fleet Marine Force, regarding operations during Operation Forager, the invasion of Saipan, Guam and Tinian during World War II. Includes reports from air, naval gunfire, engineer, signal, medical, transport...
As a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and commander of ODA 324, Major Chris Wells played a lead role in the July 2005 battle of Siah Chow, fought in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province. Having its genesis in the suspected...
During the July 2005 battle of Siah Chow - an intense, daylong, small-unit fight waged by elements of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group against Taliban forces in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province - Major Chris Hensley served as the Bravo Company...
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."
Captain Paul Toolan served as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group while deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. In this interview, he discusses at length four different battles fought by Special Forces (SF) in the...
The commander of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Lieutenant Colonel Don Bolduc, in this interview, discusses two significant battles that elements of his unit were involved in while operating in southern Afghanistan in 2005: Siah Chow in...
Cutting short a one-year tour in Iraq to attend the US Army's Command and General Staff College, US Marine Corps Major John Finch - from January through May 2005 - served in the 2nd Marine Division's G4 logistics shop as the materiel readiness...
In July 2005, in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, Sergeant First Class Donald Grambusch - a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, specifically ODA 324 - was involved in an intense, daylong fight against enemy forces in an area known as...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Major Matthew Dalton discusses serving as the chief on a military transition team in Abu Ghraib, Iraq from March 2006 through March 2007 in...
This book was written and published by the non-commissioned officer instructors under the supervision of 1st Lt. Rex E. Ballinger, Unit Operations and Training Officer, STU #1, 1783d SCU, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This text is the outgrowth of a...
The following is an account of Combat Actions or lack thereof experienced by members of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) while participating in Operation Restore Hope in Mogadishu, Somalia from 5 September 1993 until...
This is a transcript of a 1994 interview with William A. Connelly, Sergeant Major of the ARMY, conducted for the Sergeant major of the ARMY history project.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This book presents the latest information on tables of organization, provisional and special Quartermaster organizations, adaptation of standard units, and civilian and prisoner of war labor and how it will be used.
From author: "There has been placed into my hands certain facts and information concerning the planning, training, operations and social actions of Co. "A", 2nd Ranger Battalion. Armed with these, plus my own personal observations and memories, I...
Major Joel Gilbert served as an infantry line company commander in the Alaska Army National Guard - the first combat unit in the Alaska Guard to go to a combat zone since World War II - and mobilized with the 29th Brigade from the Hawaii Army...
A veteran of multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment as both a company commander and as the battalion logistics officer (S4), Major Scott Green, in this interview, discusses each in depth, beginning...
Logistical air assets played an important role in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. Special Forces missions conducted out of forward deployed bases heavily relied on aviation support to conduct their operations. From the early stages of...