This account is based on records of the U.S. Marine Corps, selected records of other services, and appropriate published works. The study provides insight into the mechanics of the battle from the highest echelon of command to the smallest unit....
Major Rich Garey deployed as the assistant operations officer (S3) with the 75th Ranger Regiment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from August through November 2005. He participated in the operational planning, mission...
Major Eric Lanham deployed to Afghanistan in July 2005 as a civil affairs team leader as part of the joint special operations task force. He was sent out to Chamkani Firebase in Regional Command-East along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan....
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
From July 2004 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Caroline Horton commanded the 66th Military Police Company and operated in the Multinational Division-Center South area of responsibility, dispersed across four...
Major Betsy Atherton found out in August 2004 that she would be going to Afghanistan as the personnel officer for the 10th Sustainment Brigade. She departed in February 2006 and set up in Bagram as part of a joint logistics command. She served as...
Major Glenn Mellor deployed to Iraq as signal company commander for 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in October 2003. They moved to Mosul where they replaced the 101st Airborne Division. It was a rough RIP/TOA as their brigade of 5,000...
Major Thong Nguyen deployed to Iraq in 2003, 2004 and 2005 doing counterintelligence (CI) and some human intelligence (HUMINT) work. On the various deployments, he worked from the tactical level up through the strategic level. He always deployed as...
Major Jackie Jones, a signal officer, served in an intelligence billet on the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) staff at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar, beginning in early 2002. As the J2, then deputy J2, Jones helped build the...
Major Paul Berg was serving as the company commander for Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 9-101 Aviation Battalion, a Blackhawk battalion, when he was notified in late 2002 of his deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)....
From April to June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Peter Elstad deployed to Iraq with a Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) team as the information operations subject matter expert, focused on how the 4th Infantry and 101st...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2003, Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and Joint Munitions Command (JMC) - then a unified major subordinate command of Army Material Command - began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the...
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...