Immediately following Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, all the services were quick to point out how well they had conducted joint operations throughout the crises. Upon closer examination, it has become evident that Army and Air Force...
Following the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan in late 2001, members of the former regime and Al-Qaeda found refuge in Waziristan. Waziristan is a tribal area in Pakistan located along the border with Afghanistan whose majority ethnic...
This monograph analyzes three military operations Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo in order to determine if and how casualties impact the commitment or withdrawal of US forces in the 1990s. These operations are viewed from the positions of the National...
Looks at the action at Singling, France on 6 December, 1944, by elements of the 4th Armored Division. This action was typical of many small engagements fought by the Third U.S. Army during the campaign in Lorraine.
My unique and emotional story about the Gulf War is the same as that many families faced with the pain of leaving behind young children and a wife. I had returned to my unit after attending the Basic Noncommissioned Officer course, which was 6...
Major Charles St. Clair was a military transition team (MiTT) chief assigned variously to the Iraqi 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division and the Iraqi 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November...
In this interview, MAJ Gary Hoffman, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a Battalion Executive Officer in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Hoffman discusses a typical day in country and how he dealt with a...
MAJ Jeffrey Wagstaff served as company commander of the 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Group in Tallil, Iraq during 2003 and as division operations (G3) plans officer in Baghdad and Balad, Iraq during...
MAJ Cloyd Smith served as the operations officer (S3) on a military transition team (MiTT) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 and 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2009 interview, MAJ Smith discusses the substantial...
In this interview, Mrs. Catherine Payne shares her experiences as the wife of a US Army officer, Major Matthew Payne, who has been on two separate overseas deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism: one to Kuwait and then Iraq from...
This paper covers my one year tour in Iraq as a First Sergeant of a medical company in the 296th Brigade Support Battalion of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. It will start with the first month in Kuwait. The second phase was the...
Wetjen, Richard F.; Berta, Frank W.; Adkins, Robert D.; Ehlinger, David B.; Runyon, Walter C.
Poor defensive operations/planning, political infighting, and a breakdown in unity of command resulted in the British defeat at Singapore.
The Allied forces on Singapore outnumbered their enemy by two to one or more. Bureaucratic wrangling...
In 2002 I was the Detachment Sergeant for the 223rd Medical Detachment (Preventive Medicine) stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. That fall almost the entire installation was alerted for deployment to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)....
My Ethic s paper is based on my experiences and thoughts on ethics. In the army we are trained to deal with situations and to make timely decisions that affect our Soldiers. Leaders can either build a team or break a team. For the last twenty-three...
The change in the army’s op-tempo is having a tremendous impact on military families.
Soldiers are deploying more often leaving behind their families. Everyone is making a sacrifice. When or how dual military Soldiers should deploy is a decision...
In 1991, as a member of the 3rd Armor Division, I was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Prior to our deployment, we had spent 150 days in the field at Hohenfels Germany honing our combat skills. This was a time of...
Not all history should be about the guys people want to emulate. Andy Rooney, a World
War II Public Affairs NCO, has called Soldiers fighting in OIF "economic victims." Andy Rooney is known to millions for his witty television essays, "A Few...
Sometimes running can be exciting, sometimes it can even be a challenge, for me running has always been somewhat of a lifestyle. When a person talks about running, whether in the frame of just staying in shape, or being a competitive runner, there...