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...
In this March 2013 interview, BG John G. Ferrari discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as the deputy commander for programs in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). He talks about the day he met LTG Bill Caldwell and shares how LTG...
Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt is currently the deputy director J5, US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida. From October 2003 until July 2004, he served as deputy director of operations and chief military spokesman in Baghdad. In this...
Brigadier General Michael Tucker was the former commander of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from April to July 2003. The area of operations under his command was east of the Euphrates River and Baghdad, specifically the districts of...
Brigadier General Peter J. Palmer served in a variety of different roles as the chief of plans for Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I) in Baghdad, Iraq, from March 2004 through June 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins by describing...
From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....
Brigadier General Robert L. Caslen, Jr. served as chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force-180 (CJTF-180) in Afghanistan from May through September 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and later as deputy director for the War on...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
Chaplain (CH) Breckenridge opens his interview with a discussion of how he joined the Army as a mid-30s adult. He describes the process of completing the Chaplain's Candidacy Course and his initial impressions of the Army. Breckenridge details...
Commander Jeffrey Bernasconi, United States Navy, served as the main engines officer onboard the USS Germantown in 1991 in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and served as the auxiliaries officer onboard the USS Harry S. Truman...
Commander John Wade was at work for the Vice Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon when his future assignment as a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) commander in Afghanistan came about. In 2006, as one of a group of hand-picked,...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...
US Navy CDR Richard Halloran served as a contracting officer tasked with overseeing contracts to build public health centers in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and on an oil terminal in the Arabian Gulf during...
Preparing for his role as V Corps chaplain for what became Operation Iraqi Freedom, Chaplain (Brigadier General) Douglas Carver concerned himself with stress management training, placement of ministry teams at forward hospitals, working with family...
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 on...
CH (MAJ) Brad Lewis served as brigade chaplain at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this January 2011 interview, Chaplain Lewis discusses his decision to practice his...
In this March 2011 interview, CH (MAJ) Brad Lewis, US Army, Chaplain; discusses his deployment experience to Afghanistan as a brigade chaplain for 4/25 Brigade Combat Team in 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Lewis describes...
Chaplain (Major) Harry "Chip" Huey deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I and II. His first deployment was the chaplain of the 485th Corps Support Battalion (CSB), V Corps, in March 2003. The CSB, after several false starts between their...
Major (Chaplain) Harry "Chip" Huey redeployed to Iraq for a second tour in February 2004, less than six months after his return from Operation Iraqi Freedom I. Executing an in-country transfer from Hanau to Vilseck, Germany, Huey quickly began to...