The 24th Transportation Battalion (24th TRANS BN) received a mission to provide humanitarian aid to Mogadishu, Somalia. The 24th TRANS BN was responsible for offload ships on the Port of Mogadishu. I supported the 24th TRANS BN from December 1992...
The paper you are about to read is about my mobilization and deployment to Baghdad Iraq, Camp Stryker, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) rotation 09-11. It will cover not only events during the mobilization process but also many events...
This Personal Experience Paper describes the background, mission, critical tasks, lessons learned and summary of my deployment to Al Asad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The paper is intended to demonstrate how we adapted to the...
The 890th Engineer Battalion received information that mobilization into the United States Army and release from the Mississippi Army National Guard for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Initially, rumors were rampant but were...
Original after-action battle report (typescript on onion skin paper) on the 1st Field Artillery Observation Battery during the Sicilian campaign in World War II.
"Artillery on the march requires strict discipline and close supervision. There is no greater evidence of the training and discipline of a unit than its conduct on the march."
This study was designed to examine each of the current fire support organizations within a brigade size element, (armor, armored cavalry, mechanized infantry, infantry,' airborne, air assault) to determine the optimum organizational structure,...
"Considerable anxiety is felt in France due to the present insufficiency of protection on the northeastern frontier, and to the uncertainty as to whether it will be made adequate by the time the troops of occupation in the Rhineland are withdrawn."
"At the beginning of May, the Group was continuing its rapid pursuit of the Germans in the Northern Po Valley, with the CP located at Ambivere, Italy. The 633rd Field Artillery Battalion, with twelve 155mm guns and one 8" Howitzer, and the 766th...
"The unit which holds the latest certificate of full fledged membership to the artillery family is the FA Rocket Battalion. With the recent great strides made in the development of propellants, rocket engines and launchers, the rocket has risen...