SGT Lyle E. Stuffel served as a 13F forward observer with the 3rd Battalion, 139th Field Artillery, E Target Acquisition Battery out of FOB Speicher and FOB Summerall during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this...
Since July 2001, Major General James A. Kelley has been the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Readiness for United States Army Forces Command, the Chief of Staff for United States Army Reserve Command, the Deputy Commanding General for Operations...
Since September 2001, Lieutenant Commander Mike Dillender has worked on the United States Navy's Deep Blue and served as the operations officer aboard the USS Ponce (LPD15). In this interview, Dillender explains how, after September 11th, he was...
Six months into his January 2005 through January 2006 tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Philip Graham went from being a battle major conducting and coordinating air missions for 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, to being the...
Slovak MAJ Alexander Schober served as a fuel officer with the Central South Polish Command in Multinational Division - Central South (MND-Central South) during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as contingent commander...
Soon after his redeployment from Bosnia, Robert D. Guy received the unwelcome news that he was slated to fill a vacancy with the soon to mobilize 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry of the Indiana Army National Guard. The 1-293 IN was scheduled to...
Specialist (now Staff Sergeant) Michael Paul Wayne Jones had the misfortune to receive his alert order for Operation Iraqi Freedom while on vacation in Canada. He returned home to Indiana and joined the 1438th Transportation Company as an...
Specialist Larry Birschbach served as the senior intelligence analyst for 1st Squadron, 8th Cavalry from October 2006 through January 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this email interview, he talks about his unit's temporary holding...
Staff Sergeant Brian Charnock, a reservist from the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as a member of an advisor support team (AST) in Iraq in 2004-2005. He starts this interview by saying that, while his initial impression of their...
Staff Sergeant Jared Sargent was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-12 CAV for the duration of his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2004 through March 2005. They arrived just in time for a very heavy fight with the Mahdi...
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...
Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
Still in command of Tactical PSYOP Detachment 980 - part of Charlie Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion - Major John Adams, in this second interview reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, discusses his January to June 2003 tour in support of...
Tasked with contingency airbase defense during his first two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from August to December 2003 at Tallil Airbase, the second from May to October 2004 at Baghdad International Airport - US Air...
The 98th Division (Institutional Training) command sergeant major at the time of this interview, Command Sergeant Major Milt Newsome - during his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - served principally as the installation...
The acclaimed author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (2005), Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl served as the operations officer for Task Force 1-34 Armor - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st...
The assistant division aviation officer in the 82nd Airborne Division - i.e., the primary planner for aviation operations - Major Ciro Stefano deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan, in August 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and redeployed...
The assistant intelligence officer for 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Captain Michael S. Erwin's principal duties during the November 2004 combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah...
The assistant operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Major D. Jones and his unit was tasked with conducting mainly unconventional warfare in northern Iraq during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Fighting...
The assistant supply officer (S4) for 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003, Major Karl Knapp was "in charge of basically coordinating everything for the S4 shop between the battalions and any...