While assigned to the 15th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, our mission, was to sustain the 2BCT twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The unit alone would perform over one-hundred sixty wheeled re-supply...
During a recent mobilization to Afghanistan, an Army Reserve Soldier was preparing to have his service record appear before a promotion board. The Soldier's leadership approached the Army Reserve Affairs Sergeant Major for advice. The supervisor...
The First Sergeant had an ethical dilemma with his Company Commander. The commander would drink alcohol during the workday and would sometimes leave during the day without telling anyone where she was going. She also would only make the physical...
This book is a news record of the Great War, since "ancient history closed at midnight of July 13, 1914." it consists of pictures, poetry and prose, made and written for the Independent during this period. Perhaps its most striking claim to...
MAJ Eric Crispino served as fire support officer (FSO) with 2-22nd Infantry and battery commander of Alpha Battery, 3-6 Field Artillery in Shkin and Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004, and as a curriculum developer at the National Military...
Major Kerry Dennard served in the 82nd Division Artillery as the S4 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and deployed on 1 September 2003. During this deployment, Dennard was in charge of logistics and ensured the movement of equipment and...
MAJ Matthew Adamczyk served as company commander with 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment in various location in Iraq during 2003 and with 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) in Tal Afar, Iraq during 2005, both in support of Operation...
Major Rich Lencz served on an embedded training team (ETT) as the advisor to the S3 and the commander of 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 203rd Corps, then later 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 203rd Corps, in Paktika Province in support of Operation...
Part two of the interview with Sergeant Jason McManus covers his June 2005 return to Iraq. This time, he went with the 81 millimeter mortar platoon, part of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, and begins by discussing the much more...
"Our host is wearing a suit. I guess that’s appropriate. This must be a big day for him. Soldiers have come all the way from America to his village’s clinic. Mama Msangi hadn’t dressed up. I’m sure she had worn the same thing she wears...
Known as the greatest hero in World War I, Alvin C. York avoided profiting from his war record before 1939. (Birdwell) SGT York was born on December 13, 1887 in a two-room log cabin in Pall Mall, Tennessee, and raised in a rural backwater in the...
During initial combat operations in Vietnam, the United States Army had no shortage of seasoned, battle-hardened combat arms noncommissioned officers. Unfortunately, as the war in the steamy Southeast Asian jungles wore on, these veteran NCOs...
During initial combat operations in Vietnam, the United States Army had no shortage of seasoned, battle-hardened combat arms noncommissioned officers. Unfortunately, as the war in the steamy Southeast Asian jungles wore on, these veteran NCOs...
As part of the Global War on Terrorism, the 1st Armored Division was called upon to support operations in Iraq during OIF II from April 2003 until April 2004. I reported to HHC 4th Brigade on 28 October 2003. I received IRT training for a week. On...
Bravo Company 1-505th PIR had just returned from Afghanistan only five months before. It was the first combat deployment for the Battalion since the War on Terrorism had started. The Battalion had completed their Intense Training Cycle (ITC), and...
The 48th New York was a Union infantry regiment that served in the Department of the South when it attempted to capture Charleston, South Carolina, during the summer of 1863. Recognized for its political, strategic, and maritime value, Charleston...