With the 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, Major Chris Wynder served as deputy division provost marshal from May 2003 to February 2004. "I was the go-to guy in terms of managing what the section did on a daily basis," he said. Besides...
From June 2004 through July 2005, Major Cameron Cantlon served as the brigade operations officer for Area Support Group-Kuwait, located at Camp Arifjan. "To summarize in a sentence," he explained, ASG-Kuwait "conducts force protection and base...
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...
COL Eric Belcher currently serves as the 15th Military Police (MP) Corps commander at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In this April 2012 interview for the Operational Leadership Experiences (OLE) Project, COL Belcher discusses his Army career beginning...
In command of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2-63 Armor - attached to Task Force 2-2 Infantry, specifically the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, for purposes of November 2004's Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr) - Captain Neil Prakash was in charge of two...
Captain Anthony Yeatts assumed command of Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2003. During his tour, his unit was tasked with a variety of missions not normally associated with the...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
At the time of this interview the commander of 3rd Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training) - a Reserve unit headquartered in Rochester, New York - Colonel Lawrence J. Kelly played a key role in the 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advisory...
After years of overseeing grade school students as a small-town elementary school principal, Staff Sergeant Rod Moyer was notified in early August 2004 that his 891st Engineer Battalion, Kansas National Guard, was being deployed to Iraq. The unit...
During the run-up and planning portions of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Redding served as the division transportation officer for the 101st Airborne Division and, as such, helped move the Screaming Eagles from Fort Campbell into...
The commander of Charlie Company, 326th Engineer Battalion - part of 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Task Force Rakkasan) - Major Mark Quander deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January to July 2002 and notably...
Captain Sheldon Morris served as the logistics officer for 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry during Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq through November 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Morris talks about the impressive...
Judge Advocate General officer Major Laura Klein is a veteran of three Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first - for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I - as the brigade legal advisor for the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kirkuk; the second, as...
Part two of the interview with Lieutenant Colonel Ed House covers his January to June 2005 Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment as the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division S3, during which he was based in Ba'qubah (FOB Warhorse) and worked under the...
Gordon Rudd, PhD, deployed in support of what would later become the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and eventually the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a professor of...
In this the first of four interviews concerning his multiple Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Jack Noyes discusses his January through May 2002 service with Task Force K-Bar (South), located at Masirah Island, Oman, in support of...
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...
Upon relinquishing his three-year command of a Wisconsin National Guard field artillery battalion, Lieutenant Colonel John Schroeder was offered the opportunity to volunteer for embedded training team (ETT) duty in Afghanistan, which he took, was...
Major Steve Murphy was the Alpha Troop commander of 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry, part of the 11th Aviation Regiment, and deployed for combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. In this interview, he discusses his role and...
Ms. Karen Malzahn, a Foreign Service officer, was the deputy principal officer in the US Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she volunteered to serve with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From her commitment in the fall of...