In this February 2009 interview LCDR Dan Meyerhuber, US Navy Nurse Corps, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB), Shock Treatment Platoon (STP) 8.Fal LCDR Meyerhuber discusses his disappointment with the...
Operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt from February to May 2003, Lieutenant Commander David Walch served as the intelligence officer for Carrier Air Wing Eight. "I basically ran and managed about five...
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...
Lieutenant Commander Gregory Chapman served as the executive officer onboard the USS Ardent in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) during 2003 and 2004. Joining the ship in April 2003, after they had been operating in support of OIF for a...
In this interview LCDR James Drew discusses his time in the Navy on board the USS Yorktown and the USS The Sullivans. LCDR Drew was onboard the USS Yorktown in port when the attacks of 9/11 occurred. He describes the mission of the ship...
In this interview, LCDR John Riley, US Navy, Aviation, discusses his deployment as an E2 Aircraft Controller in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). LCDR Riley describes a typical day and his view of the situation when entering...
LCDR Julio Sanchez served as a cryptology officer with the US Navy in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this April 2010 interview, LCDR Sanchez discusses...
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm "Mac" Martin, an electronics countermeasures officer for Navy EA-6B Prowlers, flew in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001 and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2004 and 2005. Martin was deployed aboard...
LCDR Marc Davis served as a surface warfare officer with the US Navy on multiple deployments between 2005 and 2008 in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this April 2010 interview, LCDR Davis discusses some of the differences between...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, an explosive ordnance demolition (EOD) officer for the US Navy, commanded an EOD task unit within Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines on Zamboanga from November 2005 through January 2006 in support...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, a US Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officer, commanded a detachment from Mobile Unit Two under the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) onboard the USS Bataan and around Kandahar, Afghanistan from...
LCDR Patrick Neise served on the USS Springfield and the USS Florida on multiple deployments to the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans from 2001 to 2008 in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this February 2010 interview, LCDR Neise...
From March through October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Commander Randall Hodo, a US Navy reservist, served as the preventive medicine officer with the 4th Civil Affairs Group. He discusses his role in assessing wastewater...
Lieutenant Commander Rick Timms served as the aircraft and mission commander onboard an EP-3 as part of a detachment from VQ-1 based out of Naval Support Activity Bahrain in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2001. The US Navy had...
In this interview, LCDR Robert Vest, US Navy, discusses his deployment to Bahrain as an individual augmentation (IA) for Expeditionary Strike Group 5 (ESG-5) in 2009 through 2010. LCDR Vest talks about his mission of facilitating Theater Security...
In this interview, LCDR Scott Moseman, US Navy, Intelligence, discusses his deployment to Iraq as an individual augmentee to be an operations officer in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). LCDR Moseman describes his experience with...
Lieutenant Commander Scott Starkey served as the assistant navigator onboard USS Enterprise in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and as pilot and squadron operations officer in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 3 (HS 3) onboard USS Theodore...
Lieutenant Commander Stephen Weincko served onboard the USS John C. Stennis in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2002, again later as the mission commander of a P-3 flying out of Bahrain in 2005, and finally in support of Operation...
Lieutenant Commander Steven Morgenfeld served as a helicopter detachment (DET) officer-in-charge (OIC) from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 49 (HSL-49) onboard USS McCampbell in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P)....
In this first of two interviews, Lieutenant Commander Tuan Gormican talks about serving as the intelligence officer for the Joint Interagency Task Force High-Value Individuals in Baghdad, Iraq from January through March 2006 in support of Operation...