In this second of two interviews, Major Zac Vann talks about commanding Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor and serving as the division chief of training in Baghdad and Rustamiyah from January through October 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In this first of three interviews, Major Zach Buettner talks about serving as the operations officer for the 68th Corps Support Group at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, from January through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses...
In this second of three interviews, Major Zach Buettner talks about commanding the 183rd Maintenance Company in Kuwait from August through December 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses taking command of a company which had just...
In this third of three interviews, Major Zach Buettner talks about serving as the logistics officer for Combined Joint Task Force Troy on Victory Base, Iraq, from November 2006 through February 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
In this interview, MAJ Zachary Kerns, US Army, Special Forces, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a Detachment Commander in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kerns discusses his responsibilities and his living quarters during...
In this interview, MAJ Zachary Miller, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployments to Afghanistan as part of a Special Forces Group (SFG) in 2002, 2004, 2008, and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Miller compares all of...
Major Zoran Liposcak served as an operational mentor and liaison team chief from the Croatian Army in support of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan from July 2006 to January 2007. Liposcak was working as a planning...
In this September 2012 interview, Maj. Bryan Beigh, US Air Force, discusses his deployments to Air Component Coordination Element for Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa as a mobility planner in 2005 and participating in Exercise Iron Falcon...
In this interview Major Eric Fourroux of the Army Nurse Corps discusses his experienced during his deployment to OIF in 2007 in support of the 610 BSB out of Fort Riley, Kansas. Major Fourroux was the only RN located on FOB Falcon during his tour...
In this interview Major Fred Tanner discusses his experiences in support of OEF and with General McKiernan. Major Tanner explains his responsibility as General McKiernan's military assistant and the different things he encountered while serving in...
In this interview Major Irmischer discusses his deployment in support of OIF in April 2003 to Ba'qubah, Iraq. Major Irmischer was an Engineer assigned to the headquarters company of the 588th Engineer Battalion and served as a planner on the staff...
In this interview, MAJ John Chung talks about his deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2003-2004 as the logistics officer (S4) for the 1-501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), which later transitioned to...
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...
When the 98th Division (Institutional Training) deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, Major General James R. Helmly was the chief of Army Reserve and commanding general of United States Army Reserve Command. In this interview, focusing on the 98th's...
Major General John P. McLaren Jr., formerly the assistant division commander for operations for the 80th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 as commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group. Replacing the 98th Division as...
In this April 2012 interview, Major General (MG) Joseph "Lonnie" Culver relates his experiences as a Brigadier General (BG) in command of Task Force (TF) Cyclone deployed in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from August 2009 to July...
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...
In this August 2011 interview MAJ Greg Stroud interviews MG William Mayville on his experiences with the 173rd Airborne Infantry and their involvement in OIF back in 2003. MG Mayville discusses the deployment of the 173rd into theater, the tasks...
In this interview, MAJ Michelle Tope, US Army, PSYOP, discusses her deployment to Iraq as a detachment commander in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Tope describes her reaction to arriving in country talks about her experience...
In 2003, Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and Joint Munitions Command (JMC) - then a unified major subordinate command of Army Material Command - began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the...