Major William Moen deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. Having taken command in May 2003, Moen and his company experienced some soldier and leader turbulence in preparing...
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...
From June through November 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Doug Lilly - a foreign area officer - supported Operation Enduring Freedom from Kabul as the regional engagement cell chief of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan's political-military integration...
In command of the Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD) out of the 110th Military Intelligence Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Major Robert Schexnayder deployed to Afghanistan from July 2003 through May 2004. Initially working in the border...
Serving with the 366th Fighter Wing and supporting the 28th Expeditionary Bomb Wing during the pre-hostilities and early phases of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, U.S. Air Force Major Joseph Prue worked in the Mission Planning Cell and was the space...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Major Cecil Woode served as the operations and support operations officer (S3/SPO) advisor for the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the 1st Iraqi Motor Transport Regiment - the first such unit...
From August 2005 through December 2006, Major Joseph Blanding deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the operations officer for the 172nd Stryker Brigade's Brigade Support Battalion (BSB). In this interview, he discusses the...
An environmental science officer, Major Joanne Cline commanded the 133rd Medical Detachment - a 10-person preventive medicine organization - in Iraq from February 2004 through February 2005. From her center base at Camp Victory in Baghdad, in this...
In this first of three interviews concerning his Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Edward Croot, US Army Special Forces, discusses his January to May 2002 tour in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, during which he served in 3rd...
From March to August 2004, Major Kevin Kennedy served as the executive officer of 1st Battalion, part of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, and spent the entirety of his nearly six-month deployment in downtown Baghdad, primarily the...
Major Doug Schlereth, a member of the Army National Guard, served in various roles as a liaison officer (LNO), including advising an Afghan kandak, throughout Afghanistan from February 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Major James Reed, Military Intelligence, deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom from Germany with V Corps headquarters, G2 operations section, and arrived in Kuwait in November 2002, roughly four months before the actual invasion. Assigned to the...
Major Steve Gilbertson was the aviation plans officer of the 3rd Infantry Division's Aviation Brigade when alerted for deployment to Kuwait and ultimately Operation Iraqi Freedom. Deploying first for Operation Desert Spring, Gilbertson went through...
CW2 Branam was the senior network tech for Combined Joint Task Force-76/25th Infantry Division while deployed from March 2004 to March 2005 at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. He discusses the issues they had to overcome in all three phases:...
From January to June 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Teresa Schlosser, US Army Corps of Engineers, served as the resident engineer in charge of the Bagram runway. At the time, USACE's Bagram resident office was...
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 command of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry - part of 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division - and then, mid-tour, becoming a brigade civil affairs officer, Major Scott Carpenter supported Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Craig Bukowski served as the medical plans officer for 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, based in south Baghdad. In this second of two interviews concerning...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...
Major Matthew Payne served as commander of Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division. 1-9 Field Artillery was direct support to the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team in support of Operations Desert...