Major Robin Lau, a National Guardsman from Hawaii, served on a military transition team (MiTT) in Salah ad Din Province from January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lau begins this interview by noting that the MiTT...
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...
Colonel (P) James Boozer is the former commander of the 214th Field Artillery Brigade and the former chief of the Operations Division J3 for Central Command (CENTCOM). His brigade was put on alert to deploy in January 2003 to Kuwait, and when they...
Captain Sam Rogers is the former Bravo Troop commander with 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and is currently a member of the Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab in the Experimental Division at Fort Knox. He participated in Operation Iraqi...
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...
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...
Almost 20 years after Major Randy Jimenez joined the Army, he was the one enlisting recruits-the toughest, most frustrating job of his career. In July 2003, Jimenez accepted command of a 30-member recruiting company. For two years, he and his staff...
A forward observer attached to Combined Arms Team-A - a mobile reconnaissance unit part of Combined Arms Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines - Sergeant Jason McManus arrived in Kuwait in February 2003 and participated in Operation...
The assistant supply officer (S4) for 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003, Major Karl Knapp was "in charge of basically coordinating everything for the S4 shop between the battalions and any...
At the time of his deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Stanley S. Bennett was a full-time administrative and training officer for his Missouri National Guard unit. He deployed with the 135th Rear Operations Center and was...
From January through December 2005, Major James Schreiner served as a joint staff planner in the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan CJ7 engineer directorate. More specifically, in the first half of his tour, he was the lead engineer planner for...
The commander of Fox Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from March to June 2003, Major Scott Schumacher was responsible for rear line of communications security and then, following the conclusion of the ground war, for initial stability...
In this first of three interviews, Major David Motes talks about his service as the supply and services officer for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 561st Corps Support Battalion at Camp Snoopy, Doha, Qatar, from January through August 2002...
In February 2003, US Army Major Jason Lewallen joined 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (UK) as an exchange officer. During his more than three years of service with this British unit, he served variously as the operations officer for 659 Squadron as well...
Serving as the air boss aboard the amphibious transport ship U.S.S. Trenton - part of a three-ship amphibious ready group operating in 2002 off the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea - Lieutenant Commander Douglas Helton participated in extensive...
In April 2003, the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) reached the approaches of Baghdad, Iraq, after a record-breaking march from the Kuwaiti border. To test the strength of Iraqi defenses in the capital, 2nd BCT conducted on...
In July 2003, Major Tideman Penland - a JAG officer with the 1st Armored Division - arrived in Iraq to serve initially as the senior legal advisor to the division rear based at Camp Dogwood, and his duties included leading and managing the legal...
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...
Part two of the three-part interview with Major Ronald Large covers his February 2004 through January 2005 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he served as initially a battle captain and then operations officer...