From July through December 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major J.C. White served as a battle captain and planner for 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division – the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In this interview, he...
MAJ Del Monroy served as the intelligence officer (S2) for the 3-504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) during 2003 and 2004 in Khowst, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this January 2009 interview, MAJ Monroy...
From April through November 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Thomas Gravlee commanded the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD). In this interview, he discusses the diverse range of explosive ordnance disposal missions his...
Commander John Wade was at work for the Vice Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon when his future assignment as a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) commander in Afghanistan came about. In 2006, as one of a group of hand-picked,...
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...
In this interview, MAJ Al Zehnder, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as Battalion Logistics Officer for the 82nd Forward Support Battallion (FSB) in 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Zehnder discusses his...
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Baker of the 82nd Airborne Division spent the first three months of his May to December 2002 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom based in Kandahar, Afghanistan as the Task Force Panther engineer; and then...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
MAJ Jason Enyart served as an infantry officer in command of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment during 2003 in Khowst, Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In...
The second of four interviews concerning his Global War on Terrorism deployments, this covers US Army Special Forces Major Jack Noyes' November 2004 to July 2005 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, during which he...
In this first of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Gregory Trahan discusses his command of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan beginning in...
MAJ Randy James served as the 3rd Battalion, 229 Aviation S2 Intelligence Officer in Bagram, Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this 8 October 2008 interview, MAJ James discusses the benefits of high altitude...
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Slusher, a Kansas National Guard soldier, served on an embedded training team (ETT) in various places throughout Afghanistan in 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Slusher begins his interview by discussing the...
In this third of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Jason Warner discusses his February to November 2006 deployment to Afghanistan, during which he served initially as the military intelligence company (MICO)...