MAJ Blake Price served as a platoon leader with 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment in Sinjar, Iraq during 2003, as platoon leader with a Pathfinder company in the 101st Airborne Division in Kirkuk, Iraq during 2005 and 2006, both in support of...
MAJ Michael Simpson served as a veterinarian on a Civil Affairs (CA) team in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and in Tikrit, Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as a liaison with the World Bank, the US Agency...
MAJ Christopher Mulligan served as fire support officer (FSO) in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and on a military transition team (MiTT) in Salah ad-Din Province, Iraq during 2008 in support of...
In this November 2012 interview, MAJ Brent Callis, US Army, Signal; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) Paladic command and control officer (J6) for 71st Ordnance Group (EOD) in 2011 through 2012 in support...
In this November 2012 interview, MAJ Keith Boring, US Army, Armor; discusses his deployment to Iraq as a battalion plans officer for 1-40 Cavalry (CAV), 4-25 Infantry in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Boring...
In this December of 2012 interview, Mr. Patrick Bremser, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a senior advisor to the Deputy Minister of Administration in the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation...
In this January 2013 interview, MAJ Sean Reilly, US Army, Chemical; discusses his deployment to Iraq as personnel officer for a military transition team (MiTT) in 2008 through 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Reilly talks...
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...
In this December 2012 interview, MAJ Patrick Biggs, US Army, Engineer; discusses his three deployments to Iraq with the 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) from 2003 through 2102 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Biggs recalls...
Captain Anthony Yeatts assumed command of Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2003. During his tour, his unit was tasked with a variety of missions not normally associated with the...
In this interview, MAJ Vincente Garcia, US Army, Finance discusses his deployment to Iraq as a battalion operations officer and HHC commander for 230th Finance Battalion in 2003 through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Garcia...
In this interview, MAJ Joseph Krupa, US Army, Military Intelligence discusses his deployment to Iraq as the deputy joint intelligence officer (J2) for the 71st EOD Group which became Task Force Paladin in 2011 through 2012 in support of Operation...
"When someone asks me where I was stationed in Iraq," said Major Christian Teutsch, "it's hard to come up with an answer. I had 22 different command posts over the course of the deployment…. We were constantly being relieved, although we never...
Performing a mission readiness exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center when 9/11 occurred, Major Brian Harthorn - then the commander of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division - tells how he...
Lieutenant General Richard F. Natonski, United States Marine Corps, commanded the 1st Marine Division and the ground combat element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), including substantial US Army forces, during Operation Al Fajr to...
Major Jesse McFarland, a quartermaster officer, provided logistical support to various special operations forces in Afghanistan on four different deployments from 2003 through 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Major Michael Ripley served as the commander of Operational Detachment Bravo (ODB) 700, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) while deployed to Afghanistan in 2004. In this interview, he discusses at length the charter and organization of ODB 700,...
During his first deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - which is discussed in this first part of a two-part interview - US Marine Corps Major Daniel Coleman served as the logistics officer (S4) for 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He begins...
Lieutenant Colonel Todd Conyers commanded Charlie Company, 159th Aviation Regiment, which provided heavy-lift helicopter support to the Pentagon immediately after the 9/11 attacks, and also deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to...