Sergeant First Class James Prosser deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 12 May 2003 until 9 June 2004 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-37 Armor Battalion out of Freiburg, Germany, part of the 1st Armored Division. His...
Staff Sergeant Jared Sargent was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-12 CAV for the duration of his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2004 through March 2005. They arrived just in time for a very heavy fight with the Mahdi...
With 2nd Brigade of the 75th Division (Training Support) when the call came in December 2004 to deploy the following month to Iraq to work on a military transition team (MiTT) for a year, Major Paul Esmahan was assigned as a logistics MiTT chief...
Major Phuc Buu served as a staff officer, first as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team officer for the Multinational Corps-Iraq Iraqi Security Force (ISF) cell, then as a liaison officer for Multinational Security Transition...
From January 2006 through January 2007, Major Stephen Burr - a military intelligence officer by branch - served on the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (IGFC). In this interview, he begins by discussing...
At the time of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Lieutenant Colonel Don Nitti was a major assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and was the commander of Alpha Company, 127th Aviation Support Battalion, which had the primary mission of providing aviation...
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...
Operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt from February to May 2003, Lieutenant Commander David Walch served as the intelligence officer for Carrier Air Wing Eight. "I basically ran and managed about five...
Having served two tours of duty during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel Richard O. Hatch brings a unique perspective to the War on Terrorism. First, he was staff judge advocate for the 101st Airborne Division, reporting to (then) Major General...
From September 2002 through July 2003, Major Peter Zike served as a liaison officer (LNO) with Combined Joint Task Force 180. "During that time," he said, "I visited Afghanistan and Uzbekistan and worked in the headquarters for General Tommy Franks...
Colonel Gregory Gass was the brigade commander for the 101st Aviation Brigade, during both OIF I and II, deploying in January of 2003 and returning home in February 2004. Interviewed alongside his colonel was Major John White, the brigade executive...
Colonel Gregory Gass was the brigade commander for the 101st Aviation Brigade, during both OIF I and II, deploying in January of 2003 and returning home in February 2004. Interviewed alongside his colonel was Major John White, the brigade executive...
Captain Warren Sponsler, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-64 Armor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division began his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment in September 2002 when he arrived in Kuwait. He then crossed into...
Colonel Ted Martin with the 4th Infantry Division had two assignments in Operation Iraqi Freedom. First, he commanded the 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, and then at the end of June 2003 transitioned to be the operations officer (G3) for the 4th...
Lieutenant Colonel (P) Sharon Leary served as the commander of the 115th Forward Support Battalion which is part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, during her March 2004 through March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi...
While stationed at Fort Stewart where she was a company commander with the 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Major Racquel Gallman, a finance officer, was selected to fill an individual augmentee position as the CJ8 - or resource manager - for...
When Lieutenant Colonel David Seigel was first alerted for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was serving as the executive officer (XO) of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He...
During his first of two deployments in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Thomas Keating served as officer in charge of the combat operations center for Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 16, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, 1st Marine...
In this second of three interviews, Major Greg Ford discusses serving as the division intelligence collection manager for the 101st Airborne Division and as the commander of Charlie Company, 311th Military Intelligence Battalion from the Kuwait...
Colonel Thomas Weafer is the director of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Mr. Dave Drummond is the CGSC deputy director. In this joint interview, Weafer and Drummond discuss the US Army's transition to...