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...
Major Bobby Haskin served as the battle major for 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division and as the chief of operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November 2005 to November 2006. Haskin was in an ROTC assignment teaching at Western...
A U.S. Army reservist, Major Shauna Hauser served under the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) from October 2004 to February 2005 as a J5 police planner. Involved in the training, equipping and reorganization of Iraqi police...
Lieutenant Colonel Troy Perry deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the operations officer (S3) for 1-68 Armor Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and later became the brigade S3. In this interview, Perry...
The command sergeant major for the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when the state received a requirement to put together an embedded training team (ETT) for duty in Afghanistan, Command Sergeant Major Jeff Janke volunteered,...
From August 2004 through March 2005, Major Michael Monti served as operations officer for 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines (part of the 1st Marine Division) which was responsible for an Al Anbar Province area along the Euphrates River spanning from the...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...
During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...