In this March 2011 interview, COL Cindra Chastain focuses on her experiences as the deputy commander of the 1-19th Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) mobilized in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She relates having been handpicked for the...
In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
Called up in May 2005 and given a June report date for predeployment training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Maryland-based US Army reservist Captain Christopher Isgrig became cross-leveled into the 80th Division (Institutional Training) and joined...
An Iowa National Guardsman, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Visser was mobilized in March 2004 and soon after deployed to Afghanistan in command of Task Force 168, a 750-soldier battalion comprised principally of his own 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry...
Still in command of Tactical PSYOP Detachment 980 - part of Charlie Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion - Major John Adams, in this second interview reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, discusses his January to June 2003 tour in support of...
Major John Walton commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry around Iskandariyah, Habbaniyah and Fallujah, Iraq from September 2003 through September 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As he explains in this first of two...
United States Air Force (USAF) MAJ Kyle Twenter served on multiple deployments to Iceland, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Sicily, Greece, Spain and Afghanistan from 2002 through 2011 in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this July 2012...
MAJ Phil Bergeron served as the assistant operations officer (S3) and task force fire support officer (FSO) with the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry at Kandahar Air Field (KAF), Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
MAJ Seneca Peña-Collazo served as an AH-64 Apache pilot with the 1st of the 501st Attack Aviation Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and with the 3-159 Aviation Task Force at Joint Base Balad during 2008 and 2009, both in support of Operation...