A combat engineer officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Major Ed Chamberlayne is a veteran of two Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first from June to December 2003 to Iraq where he was in charge of a forward engineer support team...
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...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier with extensive civil affairs (CA) experience in the Global War on Terrorism, Major Elizabeth Medina, on 9/11, served as operations officer for the 413th CA Battalion. The following year, she became the G3 plans...
As aide-de-camp to Major General James Marks - the Combined Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) senior intelligence officer, or C2, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - Major Kris Arnold, at the time a captain, had a fairly unique wartime experience...
As officer in charge of the 101st Airborne Division Main in Iraq from March to May 2003, Major Susan Arnold - a JAG officer - was involved with targeting and rules of engagement issues during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. After...
Assigned to the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), which later became the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), from March through September 2003, Major Thomas Verell Jr. served as the aide-de-camp to then Major General...
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...
Captain Warren Sponsler, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-64 Armor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division began his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment in September 2002 when he arrived in Kuwait. He then crossed into...
Colonel (P) James Boozer is the former commander of the 214th Field Artillery Brigade and the former chief of the Operations Division J3 for Central Command (CENTCOM). His brigade was put on alert to deploy in January 2003 to Kuwait, and when they...
Colonel (Ret.) John Martin deployed to Iraq several times. His first tour was in 2003 as part of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) until that was subsumed by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and he transferred...
Colonel David C. Martino was the division artillery (DIVARTY) commander for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq from July 2003 until February 2004. During this time, the DIVARTY was primarily responsible under the Army of...
Colonel Don C. Young served as the commander of the 1st Armored Division Engineer Brigade with responsibility for Baghdad, Iraq from May 2003 on. In the interview he discusses the logistics surprises he experienced with port operations in Kuwait....