MAJ Michael Davis served as regimental battle captain with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) and as squadron planner with 1st Squadron, 3rd ACR in Ramadi and al Qaim, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and as commander of Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd...
Major Thomas Wilson grew up as an Army brat and received his commission through the Citadel. He deployed to Iraq in May 2003 as the S2 but soon took over command of Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery in support of OIF I and...
Major Heidi Baird served as commander of the 513th Transportation Company in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from June 2004 until May 2005. A noticeable difference for this deployment in comparison to the company's previous tours in Iraq was...
Major Marc Cloutier was the assistant team chief for a special police transition team (SPTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2005 through March 2006. Once Cloutier was notified for this deployment, he reported for training at Fort...
Major James Steven served on a military transition team in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January 2006 to January 2007. Steven reported to Fort Riley and joined the other team members. He discusses the predeployment training received at...
The United States Army faced an officer shortage while mobilizing before World War II. General George C. Marshall, pushed for the creation of Officer Candidate Schools as a method to bridge the officer personnel gap. OCS generated the largest...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Major Matthew Dalton discusses serving as the chief on a military transition team in Abu Ghraib, Iraq from March 2006 through March 2007 in...
Major Issac Gipson commanded Bravo Battery, 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery in Kuwait and Baghdad, Iraq, from January through June 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about his battery's ever-changing...
From October 2006 through October 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Joseph Chestnut served as the intelligence advisor and executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT), assigned initially to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th...
Major Michelle Vancourt, an Air Force officer, served as the director of staff and the protocol officer for the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing at Manas Airbase, Kyrgyzstan, from May through September 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom....
From February 2006 through January 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Ira Smith served as the 10th Mountain Division's foreign disclosure officer. In this interview, he discusses his principal responsibility of...
Major Marc Cloutier deployed to Iraq in February 2003 as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His unit followed behind the 3rd Infantry Division and its objectives were to secure FARP...
Major Dorothy DeLeon served as the assistant intelligence officer for 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and then assistant operations officer with the 311th MI Battalion in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2003 until February...
From March 2006 through February 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major William Shinn served in Combined Joint Task Force 76 as the G4 maintenance chief. In this interview, he discusses deploying as an individual augmentee, getting...
LCDR Marc Davis served as a surface warfare officer with the US Navy on multiple deployments between 2005 and 2008 in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this April 2010 interview, LCDR Davis discusses some of the differences between...
Major Marty Deckard, a Field Artillery officer, deployed to Iraq in February 2007 and redeployed in February 2008 as a border transition team (BTT) chief. Upon being notified of his deployment while instructing at the Captain's Career Course,...
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 Jason Sepanic served as the commander of Echo Company, 204th Forward Support Battalion, a medical company in the 4th Infantry Division, during Operation Iraqi Freedom I in 2003-2004. In this interview, he discusses his planning for the...
From February 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jim Carlson served as the assistant S5 with the 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) and, in this capacity, was tasked with helping stand up the Iraqi Highway...