This paper will illustrate a sequence of events that unfolded to meet a situational crisis in the Sangin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan during my deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005-2006. I will illustrate the difficulties of...
This United States Army Sergeants Majors Academy Personal Experience Paper will detail the building, completion and implementation of the first set of fully functional ―Leadership Reaction and Training Courses‖ (LRTC) established in present day...
The mission of the Embedded Tactical Trainer (ETT) is to train side-by-side with an Afghan counterpart. It is the intent of this training to aid and train the Afghan senior leadership in daily operations of a functioning Company, Battalion, Brigade...
Upon relinquishing his three-year command of a Wisconsin National Guard field artillery battalion, Lieutenant Colonel John Schroeder was offered the opportunity to volunteer for embedded training team (ETT) duty in Afghanistan, which he took, was...
Mobilized in April 2005 for service in Afghanistan as a company embedded training team (ETT) leader, full-time National Guardsman Major John Bates arrived in country in July and linked up with 1st Company, 1st Kandak, 1st Brigade of the 205th...
Through its security assistance mission in Afghanistan, NATO is reinforcing member countries` collective security at home and providing Afghanistan the chance to build a secure and promising future for its people. The international approach must be...
I will try to relay the experience of the mobilization of 16 soldiers who made up the 2nd BDE Embedded Team Trainers (ANA). The timeline will begin one month prior to the mobilization and end with our departure to Afghanistan. I will include issues...
This paper describes some key events and lessons learned from my deployment on an Embedded Training Team (ETT) in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF IV). This was from the period of 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2006. I have...
This paper describes some of the obstacles and lessons learned transforming indigenous personnel into an operational force. I will tell how our unit was initially formed, trained, and supplied. This paper will also describe the importance of...
Eyewitness to War Oral History Series: US Army Advisors in Afghanistan is the third publication by the Combat Studies Institute that makes exclusive use of oral history. This volume is a product of interviews obtained by the CSI Operational...
Eyewitness to War Oral History Series: US Army Advisors in Afghanistan is the third publication by the Combat Studies Institute that makes exclusive use of oral history. This volume is a product of interviews obtained by the CSI Operational...
During the summer of 2005 the Wyoming state mobilization officer asked if I would be interested in being part of an Embedded Training Team (ETT) to be deployed to Afghanistan. The job would involve training the Afghan National Army. I didn’t know...
Major Song Huynh served on an embedded training team (ETT) for the 203rd Corps of the Afghan National Army in Gomar, Afghanistan, from January 2007 through January 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
Major Ross Davis, an officer in the Texas Army National Guard, served on an embedded training team (ETT) assigned to an Afghan infantry battalion - initially as the executive officer mentor, then later as the operations officer mentor and finally...
Major John Tabb deployed from January 2007 until January 2008 as both a border police transition team (BPTT) chief and an Afghan National Army (ANA) embedded training team (ETT) chief in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan -...
From May 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Stephen Boesen served variously as the chief of three different embedded training teams (ETTs) within 1st Brigade, 203rd Afghan Regional Security Integrated...
The command sergeant major for the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when the state received a requirement to put together an embedded training team (ETT) for duty in Afghanistan, Command Sergeant Major Jeff Janke volunteered,...
In this interview MAJ Scott Stokoe, Medical Service Corps, describes his deployment to Afghanistan as a member of an embedded training team (ETT). MAJ Stokoe discusses the challenges he experienced in training at Fort Riley, Kansas and how the...