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...
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...
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...
First Sergeant Richard Gano Jr. is a 23-year Army veteran and was deployed from 16 November 2003 through 23 October 2004 as the first sergeant for Bravo Troop, 1-14 Cavalry, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Before deploying, he predicted that...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
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...
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...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Pedro Agapay discusses serving on a border transition team as a personnel advisor in Nineveh Province, Iraq from May 2005 into 2006...
During the 101st Airborne Division fight from Kuwait to Baghdad in March and April 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. "Hank" Arnold served as officer in charge of the division's assault command post, responsible to the commanding general (CG) and...
Lieutenant Colonel Scott Farquhar served as a military transition team (MiTT) leader from May 2007 until May 2008 to advise a brigade of the Iraqi 3rd Infantry Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Farquhar and his team completed...
MAJ Adlai Wood served as the operations officer (S3) Air with the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Baghdad and Karbala, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and as headquarters and headquarters company (HHC) commander of the 1-37 Armor in Sinjar and...
MAJ Blake Price served as a platoon leader with 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment in Sinjar, Iraq during 2003, as platoon leader with a Pathfinder company in the 101st Airborne Division in Kirkuk, Iraq during 2005 and 2006, both in support of...
MAJ Christopher L'Heureux served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) as assistant personnel officer (S1) and company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010...
In this second of two interviews, Major Clint Cox discusses his service as the commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry in the drive towards Baghdad, and later in the Rabiah area along the Syrian border, through 2003 in support of...
MAJ Damon Schwan served as operations officer (S3) of a Military Transition Team (MiTT) in Sinjar, Nineveh Province, Iraq during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2011 interview, MAJ Schwan discusses the...
Major Dave Waters, in this second of two interviews, talks about commanding the Pathfinder Company, 101st Airborne Division throughout Iraq from June 2003 through January 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses the ease of changing...
In this interview MAJ Dennis Davis discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2006 right before the beginning of the surge as the assistant operations officer air (AS3 Air) before he became the battalion maintenance officer (BMO) later on in the...