Commanders always require a large amount of data in order to maintain situational awareness, a very complicated endeavor especially during deployments in Iraq or Afghanistan with subordinate units spread across the country. The Battle Command...
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Croft served as the transportation officer of the 4th Infantry Division in Kuwait and Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Croft talks about coordinating the deployment of units with...
The mission of the 33rd Military Police Battalion is the command and control of all defense forces protecting Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Bucca, Iraq, located in MND-SE between Urn Qasar and Safwan. The FOB' s defense forces consist of both...
For my professional experience paper, I chose to write about my last deployment to the Middle East, to Kuwait as the First Army Senior LNO NCOIC to Army Central at Camp Arifjan. The intent of this paper is to share some observations and common...
Ten years ago at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, I prepared for my first job as a Platoon Sergeant in a Light Equipment Engineer Company assigned to 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). This is where my career became the most challenging because of the...
This paper will briefly express what happened with 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and Hawk Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, during the deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom. You will receive informative information...
Major John Giop served as fire support officer from May 2003 to July 2003 and as a howitzer battery commander from July 2003 to July 2004 with 1st Squadron, 2nd ACR in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Giop talks about the...
From June 2004 to June 2005, Major William Kepley was based at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, and served as the Army Central Command (ARCENT) Qatar operations officer. In this capacity, while he managed Class V ammunition for all ARCENT-assigned units...
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...
During the run-up and planning portions of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Redding served as the division transportation officer for the 101st Airborne Division and, as such, helped move the Screaming Eagles from Fort Campbell into...
Transformation Insights for a power-projection army. Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege, US Army, Retired, and Lieutenant Colonel Antulio J. Echevarria II, US Army Closing with the enemy: the core competency of an army....
Major Barbara Haines, Transportation Corps, deployed from July 2006 to July 2007 as the support operations officer (SPO) for the Area Support Group-Kuwait (ASG) at Camp Arifjan. This was a permanent change of station move for Haines from the US....
Major Stuart Farris deployed to Afghanistan in April 2003 as "the assistant to the assistant S3" in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and later assumed the role as an SF detachment commander. While on staff, he was the night battle captain,...
As the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division, during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Timothy Atkins was tasked with a wide range of administrative and logistical responsibilities...
Major Zoran Liposcak served as an operational mentor and liaison team chief from the Croatian Army in support of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan from July 2006 to January 2007. Liposcak was working as a planning...
Major Scott Thomas served as the commander of both Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry near Baiji, Iraq, from April 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview,...
Major John Grantz deployed as the assistant S3 for 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division in February of 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In part one of his two-part interview, he begins by...
Major John Grantz deployed as the assistant S3 for 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division in February of 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In part one of his two-part interview, he begins by...
Major David Novy, US Air Force, in this second of two interviews, talks about serving as a project engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Bagram, Afghanistan, from April through October 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Unlike...
A cavalry team chief with 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support), Fort Stewart, Georgia, Major Brian Kerns conducted training and assisted the mobilization of National Guard units deploying to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq from April 2002...