The surface warfare community prides itself on having the most capable, best trained, and most proficient leaders at the Department Head (DH) level. This assumption stems from an age when the "Head of Department" was a seasoned, matriculated, and...
A veteran of seven deployments to Italy for Bosnia and Kosovo, U.S. Air Force Major David Harris flew 20 combat missions as an MC-130H Talon II navigator in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Forward based out of Romania, Harris' 7th Special...
Major Doug Hayes, US Air Force, served as the information management officer for the joint operations center of Multinational Corps-Iraq at Camp Victory, Iraq, from May through October 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about the...
In this interview MAJ Haskell discusses his deployment to Afghanistan in support of OEF in 2004. MAJ Haskell has deployed four times in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) but for him this was his crucible experience as a leader and a SF...
MAJ David Hutchinson served as the company commander of the 511th Military Police Company in Mosul and Tall Afar, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this December 2009 interview, MAJ Hutchinson discusses the...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
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...
Assigned as the first sergeant of Dragon Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment for two separate tours of duty in Iraq, Master Sergeant Daniel Hendrex, in this interview, provides detailed information on his and his unit's involvement in...
While attending training for a new civilian job, Staff Sergeant Douglas Hartwell, an Army Reservist with the 129th Transportation Company, was activated in January 2003. Within days, he began training at Fort Riley and three months later, deployed...
Lieutenant Colonel Daryle Hernandez served as the executive officer for 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the Al-Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, from March 2004 to March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). When the squadron arrived in...
Serving as the air boss aboard the amphibious transport ship U.S.S. Trenton - part of a three-ship amphibious ready group operating in 2002 off the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea - Lieutenant Commander Douglas Helton participated in extensive...
From March 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Chaplain (Major) Dennis Hysom served as first the 4th Infantry Division's DIVARTY chaplain and then as the chaplain for the 104th Military Intelligence Battalion. In this...
In this interview MAJ David Hansen, Military Intelligence (MI) officer, discusses his deployment to Iraq in support of the Extra Judicial Killings (EJK) Task Force in 2006. MAJ Hansen deployed as an individual augmentee to serve as the liaison...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
Major Dewey Haines was an instructor at the Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood when he was selected to deploy in support of the Global War on Terrorism as the provost marshal at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar. Haines completed predeployment...
In this first of two interviews, Major Dave Hammerschmidt, United States Air Force, talks about serving in the 725th Air Mobility Squadron at Naval Station Rota, Spain, from September 2001 through June 2004 in support of the Global War on...
Colonel Dyfierd Harris commanded 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom from July 2003 until July 2004. This brigade - the division's aviation brigade - had operational responsibilities throughout the division's area of...
Major Dave Hammerschmidt, United States Air Force, in this second of two interviews, talks about serving as the chief of logistics for the Air Mobility Operations Group at Ramstein, Germany from June 2004 through September 2007 in support of the...
Deployed from January through August 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Dustin Harris of the US Army Corps of Engineers served as the resident engineer for Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan and, in this capacity, worked on...