Major Jeff Tennyson, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as an advisor to the New Iraqi Army in 2004-2005. Tennyson's unit, an engineer company, was already mobilized at Fort Leonard Wood when he found out they would...
A US Army Reserve quartermaster officer assigned to 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment - an institutional training unit headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia - First Lieutenant Mitchell Wander was mobilized in May 2005, assigned to the 80th...
MAJ Brennan Cook served as the Security Company Advisor to the 3rd Motor Transport Regiment (Iraqi Army) in 2006 and 2007 in Al-Kisik, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this 11 August 2009 interview, MAJ Cook discusses the...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier assigned to the 4-80th Chemical Training Battalion when he received orders sending him with the 80th Division (Institutional Training) on a military transition team (MiTT) to Sinjar, Iraq in 2005-2006, Sergeant First...
At the time he was mobilized for service in the Global War on Terrorism, First Lieutenant Karl Maier, an Army reservist, was serving as commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, a training support battalion within the 80th...
In this first of two interviews, Major David Novy, United States Air Force, talks about serving as an engineer on the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) engineering staff throughout Iraq from October 2004 through February 2005...
In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
First Lieutenant Jeremy Burke, a reservist from the 80th Division (Institutional Training), served on a military transition team (MiTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Normally a company executive officer acting as a company commander, he...
From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Major Vincent Bellisario served as a military transition team chief in Baghdad, Iraq, from May 2007 through May 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about training his team on the various battle drills, the...
In this second of two interviews with Major Michael Doherty concerning his Global War on Terrorism experiences, he discusses his work on the Force Planning and Integration Team in the Department of the Army, Military Operations-War Plans Division...
Historically a distinct cultural and operational rift has evolved between Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Conventional Forces (CF) that devalued the need for SOF-CF integration and for developing common operating procedures and doctrine. This...
MAJ E. Keith Rowsey served with a military transition team (MiTT) that was part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2009 interview,...
In this interview, MAJ Matt Simons, US Army, talks about his second deployment to Iraq as part of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF). MAJ Simons discusses his introduction to the Iraqi Battalion...
In Mosul, Iraq, from January 2004 to January 2005, Captain Angela Bowman was the executive/operations officer for the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a 20-soldier split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit headquartered in...
A reservist serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Antonio L. Morales was mobilized and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005. Normally assigned as a schools officer with the...
Captain Jon M. Trolla served in two rotations as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). He first served six months at Camp Victory in Baghdad as a battle captain then served as the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) engineer for Task Force Freedom, a...
The following is part three of a three-part interview with Major Jim McDermott, during the totality of which he discusses his two Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments - the first in 2003 as commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry,...