In this interview, 1Lt Bernadette Collins, US Army, AG, discusses her deployment to Iraq as a Adjutant General Branch Officer in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). 1LT Collins discusses in detail the pre-mobilization actions she and...
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...
LT John Beagle was in the last two weeks of his Medical Service Officers Basic Course (MSOBC) when he received a call from his National Guard company commander. Beagle had been selected as a follow on mobilization filler for an Infantry battalion...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
At the time he was mobilized for service in the Global War on Terrorism, First Lieutenant Karl Maier, an Army reservist, was serving as commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, a training support battalion within the 80th...
1LT Kurt Lovins served as a platoon leader of Alpha Company, 1st Platoon of the 7-11th Signal Company, 250th Signal Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2009 interview,...
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...
Lieutenant Megan Eldred mobilized in May 2006 as a cross-level filler for the 38th Division Support Command (DISCOM), Indiana Army National Guard, which deployed to Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite her...
1LT Michael Johnson begins his interview with an explanation of how the Air Force operates weather terms within the Iraq Theater. He relates how the Air Force places weather terms within the Army Brigade Combat Teams and Divisions, as well as...
A US Army Reserve quartermaster officer assigned to 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment - an institutional training unit headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia - First Lieutenant Mitchell Wander was mobilized in May 2005, assigned to the 80th...
In this interview, 1LT Stephen Kennedy, USAF, Joint Combat Assessment Team (JCAT) Research Engineer. 1LT Kennedy opens his interview by detailing the key parts of his job. He describes how he conducts post-battle damage assessment on all Joint...
An Iowa National Guardsman, First Sergeant Christopher Fox was mobilized in February 2003 for service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, went through predeployment training at the Fort McCoy, Wisconsin mobilization station, and then in April arrived in...
Conducted during a February 2007 trip they made to the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth in order to keep themselves "abreast of the latest doctrinal changes" and acquire the latest information and tools in order to continue professionally...
In April 2003, the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) reached the approaches of Baghdad, Iraq, after a record-breaking march from the Kuwaiti border. To test the strength of Iraqi defenses in the capital, 2nd BCT conducted an...
First Sergeant Richard Gano Jr. is a 23-year Army veteran and was deployed from 16 November 2003 through 23 October 2004 as the first sergeant for Bravo Troop, 1-14 Cavalry, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Before deploying, he predicted that...
Ambassador James Dobbins is currently director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he served as assistant secretary of state for Europe; special assistant to the president for the Western...
The State Surgeon for the Wisconsin National Guard when given a quota of physicians and dentists to send over to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, Brigadier General (Dr.) Roger Lalich - an OB/GYN by specialty - ended up choosing himself as one of...
As part of his research for a Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper on the so-called Second Lebanon War of 2006 - a 34-day conflict fought principally between Israel and the paramilitary forces of Hezbollah - historian Matt Matthews of Fort...
A member of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) command and control (C2) cell, Brigadier General Frank Cipolla deployed to Iraq in mid 2004 in advance of the rest of the unit for its training and advisory mission with the new Iraqi Army. Of...