An Active Guard Reserve soldier with extensive civil affairs (CA) experience in the Global War on Terrorism, Major Elizabeth Medina, on 9/11, served as operations officer for the 413th CA Battalion. The following year, she became the G3 plans...
From January to June 2004, Major John V. Smith worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and served as the senior health facility advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, responsible for helping the Iraqis rebuild their healthcare system...
From June to December 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Nikolai Andresky served as the S3, S2 and de facto XO trainer on an advisory team assigned to train the first and only Afghan National Army armor battalion....
From March 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major William Shinn served in Combined Joint Task Force 76 as the G4 maintenance chief. In this interview, he discusses deploying as an individual augmentee, getting...
From November 2003 through July 2005, Major John James served in the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, and during this time he deployed as part of F Company to the Horn of Africa, specifically Ethiopia. According to James, the Joint Special Operations...
In this fourth of four interviews, Major J.T. Torrain talks about serving as the team chief for a military transition team (MiTT) in Taji and Samarra, Iraq, from May 2006 through April 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the...
In this November 2009 interview, MAJ Nathan Alvarez relates his challenges with handling the red tape in procuring new equipment for his organization. MAJ Alvarez describes his ongoing challenges in terrain management for his task force. MAJ...
MAJ Al Roach served as the brigade executive officer (XO) on one of the first Border Transition Teams (BTTs) in Taji, Ba'qubah and Kirkush, Iraq during 2006 and 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2010 interview, MAJ...
MAJ Isabel Geiger served as the commander of a headquarters and headquarters detachment (HHD) of the 181st Transportation Battalion in the 16th Corps Support Group (CSG) during 2003 and 2004 in Balad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom...
MAJ Robert Ross served in an advise and assist brigade (AAB) in Adamiyah, Iraq during 2010 and 2011 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this June 2012 interview, MAJ Ross discusses the changes he noted this deployment as compared to...
MAJ Steven Wallace served with as a platoon leader, adjutant (S1), executive officer (XO) and company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division in various areas in Afghanistan during 2002-2003 and again in 2006-2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Major Corey Crosbie was an observer-controller at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, when a US Army Europe (USAEUR) request for volunteers drew his attention in November 2005. An armor officer, he joined a team headed for...
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....
Major Stuart Farris deployed to Afghanistan for the second time in May 2004 as commander of ODA 341 in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group. Once in Afghanistan, he moved his detachment to the village of Zormat in the Paktia Province. Based on...