Captain Nicole Lauenstein served as the officer-in-charge of the human intelligence operations cell (HOC) for the 501st Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion and as an operations platoon leader for Charlie Company, 501st MI Battalion in Iraq from...
Captain Scott Linker served as the executive officer for Delta Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion and the intelligence officer for 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry in Iraq from May 2003 through July 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....
Chaplain (CH) Dunn discusses his pre-mobilization Religious Support training. He notes his dissatisfaction with "too many PowerPoint briefings and not enough hands on training". Dunn relates that a mock memorial ceremony training block was...
MAJ Christopher L'Heureux served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) as assistant personnel officer (S1) and company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010...
In this December 2012 interview, Maj Kim Arnold, US Air Force, Contracting discusses her deployment to Iraq as a regional contracting officer for 407th Air Expeditionary Group in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Maj Arnold talks...
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Lemons and Major David Sierakowski, both members of the Illinois National Guard, have served on active duty fulfilling a two-year tour of duty training various Reserve Component and National Guard units being mobilized in...
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Lemons and Major David Sierakowski, both members of the Illinois National Guard, have served on active duty fulfilling a two-year tour of duty training various Reserve Component and National Guard units being mobilized in...
The signal officer for 159th Aviation Brigade, part of the 101st Airborne Division, from May 2003 through January 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Nancy Bodyk was tasked with ensuring the brigade's "communications were operational...
Major William Black served as a captain with Coalition Task Force 82 as a battle captain and a company commander, as well as a liaison officer to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan from the period of August 2002 to February...
Deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February through October 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Perrone served roughly the first half of his tour as one of battle captain officers in charge for the V Corps Office of Staff Judge Advocate...
From January through December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major David Mendelson served as the officer in charge of administrative law for Multinational Corps-Iraq (MNC-I). In this interview, he discusses the full range of his legal...
This study investigates the concept of loyalty as applied in the U.S. Army. In light of the fact that the term has been dropped from the official definition of the Army Ethos in the 1994 version of FM 100-1, the study investigates the implications...
This thesis adopts the adversary's perspective to consider the revolution in military affairs, thereby breaking free of the intellectual constraints imposed by the American paradigm of warfare, doctrine and force structure. The adversary's need to...
This study analyzes the Peruvian Maoist Shining Path insurgency and its association with illegal drug traffickers to determine if United States Army elements deployed to the region, could have a positive impact on the Peruvian Government's fight...
As a part of the response to the Al Qaida attacks on 11 September 2001, the United States found itself having to answer many difficult questions regarding its action in the Global War on Terrorism. One of the most contentious was the use of torture...
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States (US) advisors and massive amounts of American airpower. The problem is...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine if the United States government considered the voluntary services of World War I African American combat soldiers during the interwar years and determined them to be combat multipliers for future conflicts....
This study addresses the role of senior leaders as mentors in the Army's leader development process. Principally, this study investigated the proper role of senior leader mentoring as a viable component of the Army's leader development doctrine. It...
This study investigates whether the military decision-making qualities, as framed by the professional Army ethic, are endorsed by the Judeo- Christian values system. The author chose the four values of the professional Army ethic (loyalty, duty,...
This study analyzes the current Reserve Officer Training Corps' (ROTC) Program of Instruction (POI) found in Cadet Command Regulation 145-3 and determines if the POI has anticipated the leadership training needs of ROTC cadets for the future. In...