This is a transcript of a taped interview with Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge, conducted by Sergeant Major Erwin H. Koehler (United States Army, retired) for the Center of Military History, United States Army and the United States...
MAJ John Cherry served as the operations officer (S3) with the 2-395th Field Artillery (FA) battalion during 2004 and 2005 at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2008 interview, MAJ...
In this February 2009 interview MAJ Richard Sweet, Aviation, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of a Special Police Transition Team (SPTT) in 2006. MAJ Sweet discusses his pre-deployment training at Fort Hood, Texas and how his team came...
This is a transcript from a taped oral history interview with SGM Dennis Thompson, former Vietnam Conflict prisoner of war (audio version also available in USASMA digital library). He was interviewed by MSG Ransic Refeus for the US ARMY SERGEANTS...
From April 2006 through April 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Rob Bashein served as chief of a border transition team (BTT), located in the Multinational Division-Central South area of responsibility in Iraq, at the time...
MAJ Steven Wallace served with as a platoon leader, adjutant (S1), executive officer (XO) and company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division in various areas in Afghanistan during 2002-2003 and again in 2006-2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Throughout the 1st Infantry Division's February 2004 to March 2005 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Command Sergeant Major Cory McCarty - a 30-year Army infantryman - served as the division CSM. In this interview,...
Major Eric Puls deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003-2004, as first the aviation aircraft maintenance troop commander in 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, part of the 4th Infantry Division, and then as commander of Delta Troop - an...
Major Jon-Paul Maddaloni deployed as a part of a border transition team (BTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January 2006 to February 2007. In this interview, Maddaloni discusses the transition team's predeployment training and...
The commander of Tactical PSYOP Detachment 980 - part of Charlie Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion - Major John Adams deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) from May through August 2002. Attached to 1st Special Forces...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Captain Amos Nelson of the Iowa National Guard was in command of the 186th Military Police Company. In this interview, he discusses the predeployment training his unit received...
Like "stepping through a mountain pass and seeing Shangri-La below" was how Major Robert Bowers described his arrival at the 75th Ranger Regiment and assumption of duties as the regimental judge advocate. "There weren't any money issues there,...
From January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Creed served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - in the Ba'qubah area of...
First Lieutenant Jeremy Burke, a reservist from the 80th Division (Institutional Training), served on a military transition team (MiTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Normally a company executive officer acting as a company commander, he...
This is an oral history interview with Sergeant Major of the Army (Ret.) William o. Wooldridge, the first Sergeant Major of the Army, conducted on 6 February 2000.
In this third of three interviews, Major John Martin talks about commanding Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from March 2005 through February 2006 in support of Operation Enduring...
Major John Giop served as fire support officer from May 2003 to July 2003 and as a howitzer battery commander from July 2003 to July 2004 with 1st Squadron, 2nd ACR in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Giop talks about the...
The events and stories documented in this book occurred during World War Two, all over the world, and were personally narrated by the veterans who lived them. The stories are divided by theater of operation- European and Pacific; all others went...
The executive officer of 1st Battalion, 325th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Iacobucci deployed from February to July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In command of the 7th Transportation Battalion for 11 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II beginning in January 2004, Lieutenant Colonel George Akin was an Active Component commander working under a Reserve Component corps support...