In this interview, MAJ Gregory Johanek, US Army, Signal Corps; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the Brigade Signal Officer (S6) in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Johanek discusses a typical day and his...
Some soldiers may feel that your accomplishments and successes, while in the military, are measured by how many times you served your country downrange. Have I fulfilled the requirements of being a good Soldier? I’ll let you decided. As you...
In this interview MAJ Dustin Phillips relates his experience as part of a training team deployed to Iraq in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Phillips discusses the challenges he faced in this position, the lack of quality...
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...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
In this interview, MAJ Matthew Hustead, US Army, Field Artillery (FA), discusses his deployments to Iraq as a battery commander in 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Hustead talks about his experience with patrolling,...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
For most of his January to November 2005 deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Major Christopher Plummer served as the training and fielding officer for the entire Afghan National Army (ANA), focusing on marksmanship, small unit...
A member of the 10-man advisor support team attached to the 6th Battalion, Iraqi Army, Major Mike Sullivan provided advisory and training assistance to two rifle companies and the headquarters company from April to August 2004. Standing up this...
In this interview, MAJ Victor Herbin III, US Army, Adjutant General; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the personnel officer (S1) for the 15th Sustainment Brigade in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Herbin...
In this first of two interviews, Major Frank Ras talks about serving as the transportation integration chief and the deputy brigade support operations officer for the 45th Sustainment Brigade at Qayyarah-West, Iraq, from June 2006 through July 2007...
In this interview, MAJ Matt Simons, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as a Battery Commander in October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF). MAJ Simons discusses his pre-deployment training and describes his personal move...
In this interview, MAJ Matthew McMillen, US Army, Strategic Plans and Policy, discusses his deployment to Iraq as an Action Officer for Iraqi Security Forces in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ McMillen discusses a typical day...
In this interview MAJ Boyd, an Army nurse, discusses his 2004-2005 deployment to Baghdad, Iraq with the 772nd Forward Surgical Team (FST). This was an unexpected deployment for MAJ Boyd as he had just arrived in Germany and didn't know he was...
A student at the Judge Advocate General's School from September 2001 through June 2002, Major Charles Lozano then moved to Germany and assumed duties as chief of criminal law for the 1st Armored Division until August of the following year. "The big...
Major Michael Barger, in this first of two interviews, talks about serving as the operations officer for the 13th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion in Kuwait and Iraq from February through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....
The military needs an autonomous ground convoy capability because the speed and complexity of the environment in which it operates has begun to exceed the abilities of its members to operate within it. U.S. Army doctrine requires the logistics...
From March 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Chaplain (Major) Dennis Hysom served as first the 4th Infantry Division's DIVARTY chaplain and then as the chaplain for the 104th Military Intelligence Battalion. In this...
In this first of two interviews, Major Dave Hammerschmidt, United States Air Force, talks about serving in the 725th Air Mobility Squadron at Naval Station Rota, Spain, from September 2001 through June 2004 in support of the Global War on...