Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Baginski, a reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served in Iraq as the military transition team (MiTT) leader for the Iraqi 1st Motor Transportation Regiment from September 2004 to September 2005....
Colonel Jody Daniels, a reservist who served formerly with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq as a member of that division's survey team, and later became the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq joint staff...
After years of overseeing grade school students as a small-town elementary school principal, Staff Sergeant Rod Moyer was notified in early August 2004 that his 891st Engineer Battalion, Kansas National Guard, was being deployed to Iraq. The unit...
Assigned to 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Major Mike Kirkpatrick served as the Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (HHT) commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom I, moving into Iraq on 13 May 2003. In this interview, he begins by...
Major John Cole served as the commander of Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division - during the initial offensive of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. In this interview,...
A project engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Major Torrey Diciro reported to Bahrain in February 2002 on an unaccompanied tour where "they had me punching out buildings and basically making sure the contractor gave us what we specified...
From 2002 through 2004, Mr. Gene Del Bianco served as the US Department of State's political-military advisor in the US Embassy in Kuwait and, in this capacity, he said, "One of the major issues I was dealing with in my portfolio was the planning...
During his yearlong deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Kevin Broadnax served as commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division. In this interview, he discusses...
Lieutenant Commander Scott Starkey served as the assistant navigator onboard USS Enterprise in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and as pilot and squadron operations officer in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 3 (HS 3) onboard USS Theodore...
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...
Assigned to the Bahrain-based Middle East office of the Defense Energy Support Center, Major Mendel Waddell served as an Army quality surveillance representative for fuel coming into and out of the U.S. Central Command area of operations. "We...
From March to August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeremiah Jette served as the commander of Bravo Company, 63rd Signal Battalion, attached to the 11th Signal Brigade, and was tasked with providing area signal support to Talil...
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...
With the Army's Criminal Investigation Division as a shift operations officer when the 9/11 attacks occurred, Major J.D. Branch became part of the FBI's joint operations center for Pentagon recovery that was headquartered at the Pentagon itself and...
Immediately following Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), there appeared to be a resurgence of insurgent activity in Afghanistan," said Major James DeOre, a company commander in the 75th Ranger Regiment, "so our unit was deployed to target Taliban and...
Serving on the military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (IGFC) from January 2006 through January 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Whitney was originally slated to be the C5 advisor. This, however, was an "ill-advised...
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...
Major Deverick "Dev" Jenkins served as an information operations (IO) officer for 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division - the Stryker Brigade Combat Team - from October 2003 through October 2004 operating mainly in the Iraqi city of Mosul. As he...
During his 2003-2004 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Captain Amos Nelson of the Iowa National Guard was in command of the 186th Military Police Company. In this interview, he discusses the predeployment training his unit received...
Staff Sergeant Jared Sargent was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-12 CAV for the duration of his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2004 through March 2005. They arrived just in time for a very heavy fight with the Mahdi...