This is a transcript of an oral history interview with SGM Ada L. Mercado-Morales. It is dated: February 27, 1989. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive.
SGM Mercado talks about joining the service, her time in...
Staff Sergeant Steven Jackson was a Reserve Component soldier who reenlisted on his fiftieth birthday in 2003 after a sixteen-year break in service. After a valuable predeployment train-up at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, he mobilized at Fort Bragg, North...
In this second of two interviews, Major Scott Morrison, United States Air Force, talks about commanding the intelligence flight for Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar from January through May 2007 in support of the...
From author: "There has been placed into my hands certain facts and information concerning the planning, training, operations and social actions of Co. "A", 2nd Ranger Battalion. Armed with these, plus my own personal observations and memories, I...
Major Rich Garey deployed as the commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, 10th Mountain Division to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July 2003. He initially flew into Bagram and then moved his company to two...
In support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Peter "Duke" DeLuca commanded the 101st Airborne Division's 326th Engineer Battalion during the major combat phase and then, from June 2004 through June 2005, served as the J7 engineer for Lieutenant...
Major Justin Brown assumed command of Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment just before the unit's deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003. In this interview, he recounts his experiences in Iraq, particularly those...
In this interview MAJ Steve Barry discusses his deployment to Iraq during the initial phases of the war. Deployed to Kuwait for six months prior to the kickoff of OIF I, MAJ Barry describes the time he and his tank company spent training in the...
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gabel deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the 11th Aviation Regiment's fire support officer from January through June 2003, and then transitioned in theater to become operations officer for the 41st Field...
1LT Donnelly details the Air Mission Set (AMS) building process used by the 38th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Donnelly relates the AMS process as not doctrinal, nor taught in school, and akin to "solving...
Major Deb MacKay, United States Air Force, served as the chief of intelligence, weapons and tactics for the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Jaber Air Force Base, Kuwait and Tallil Airbase, Iraq from February through August 2003 in support of...
In this interview MAJ Bruce Carter describes his deployment with the 1-94 FA to Iraq in 2003 and 2004. MAJ Carter was the assistant S3/Battalion liaison officer initially and then took command of the HHS for his unit. Throughout the deployment...
MAJ Terry Stewart served as the headquarters and headquarters company (HHC) commander for the 37th Engineer Battalion out of the 20th Engineer Brigade in Mosul, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this...
From February 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Ted White served as the support operations officer for the 357th Corps Support Battalion, US Army Reserve, based in Tallil, Iraq. In this interview, he discusses...
Assigned to the Office of the Judge Advocate General and serving as a representative to the Detainee Task Force from July 2004 to June 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Jane Ellen Bagwell helped "oversee the investigations and the corrections that were...
An engineer by branch, Major Marc Hoffmeister served one year starting in September 2003 with the C35 future operations section of Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC), based in Camp Doha, Kuwait. "Our main effort" in support of Operation...
From March 2003 through March 2004, Major Dennis Van Wey supported Operation IRAQI FREEDOM as part of the 418th Civil Affairs Battalion, a Reserve unit out of Belton, Missouri. Based initially in Ba'qubah with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th...
Master Sergeant Charles Burroughs, an intelligence specialist for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, talks about the Battle of Mari Ghar which took place in Afghanistan on 7 August 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
MAJ Stephen Dondero served as the division supply officer (G4) with Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) 82nd Airborne Division in As Samawah and An Najaf, Iraq during 2002 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2010...
A veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan as part of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) - the first from January to August 2004 as the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company operations sergeant, the second from June 2005 to February 2006 as an...