Nearly everyone has seen the recruiting poster with Uncle Sam pointing directly at you and declaring “I Want You!” This broad patriotic appeal touches upon some very fundamental questions: Who serves in the military (i.e., everyone or only...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
In command of the 7th Transportation Battalion for 11 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II beginning in January 2004, Lieutenant Colonel George Akin was an Active Component commander working under a Reserve Component corps support...
About his June 2003 through February 2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Todd Hourihan describes himself as having had to "hitchhike" both into and out of war. He begins this interview by telling how his original orders...
In April 2003, Major Kevin Pies, a Christian Military and Alliance chaplain from Fort Carson, Colorado, along with the 64th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division joined soldiers from Fort Hood in Kuwait at Camp New Jersey....
Attached is a copy of a training manual found in May 2000 by British investigators in Manchester, England, while searching the apartment of suspected al Qaeda member Anas al-Liby, AKA Nazih al-Raghie. The Southern District of New York included this...
Shalikashvili, John M.; Siltman, Frank J.; Dabrowski, John R. (John Raymond); US Army Military History Institute. Oral History Branch.; Army War College (U.S.)
This oral history transcript is a part of the academic year 2006, US Army War College/US Army Military History Institute's Senior Officer Oral History Program, prepared under the auspices of the Institute's Oral History Branch.
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Hartzog, William W.; Brouse, Steve, 1960-; Dabrowski, John R. (John Raymond); US Army Military History Institute. Oral History Branch,; Army War College (U.S.)
This oral history transcript is a part of the academic year 2004, US Army War College/US Army Military History Institute's Senior Officer Oral History Program, prepared under the auspices of the Institute's Oral History Branch.
General Hartzog was...
From January through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Steve Wood served as the logistics officer for 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, part of 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. In this two-part interview, he discusses his...
As the military liaison officer (LNO) to other government agencies - mainly the CIA and the FBI - Major Melissa Fozman, based at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in Kabul, supported Operation Enduring Freedom from July 2004 through January 2005....
From January 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Darren Keahtigh served as commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division - and was based variously in Baghdad...
From September 2005 to August 2006, Major Walter Roberson served as executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT) assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade of the 1st Iraqi Army Division - at the time a tier-one unit that was operating on its...
Deploying initially with the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron in January 2002 in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (then later re-task organized under the 40th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron), Major Mike Adderley served as a B-52 aircraft...
During her March 2003 to March 2004 deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as part of Combined Joint Task Force-76, Major Deitra Korando - an intelligence officer with the 25th Infantry Division - served initially as a battle major in...
In this interview, MAJ Scott Sentell, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as the Command of the Alpha Company 1-8 CAV in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MAJ Sentell discusses his personal experience with pre-deployment training...
Roughly a month after taking command of Bravo Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Tactical Exploitation System) in November 2002, Major Art La Flamme received his deployment order and, by January, was at Ahmed Al Jaber Airbase in Kuwait...
Major Jason Kerr supported the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom as commander of the US Army's 101st Chemical Company in 2003. Graced by the deployment of the XVIII Airborne Corps headquarters to...
The leader of 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, Task Force 2-2 Infantry in Fallujah during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Staff Sergeant David Bellavia was recommended for the Medal of Honor, nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross...
In command of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2-63 Armor - attached to Task Force 2-2 Infantry, specifically the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, for purposes of November 2004's Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr) - Captain Neil Prakash was in charge of two...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, a US Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officer, commanded a detachment from Mobile Unit Two under the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) onboard the USS Bataan and around Kandahar, Afghanistan from...