The employment of tactical PSYOP teams (TPT) directly affects the outcome of operations. In the past 10 years, the U.S. Army failed to fully employ TPTs in operations a significant percentage of the time. The operational cost of not employing...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
CPT Toomer gives a detailed discussion of the operations of his Forward Support Company in providing support to Task Force Pegasus. Toomer notes because of the Forward Operating Base (FOB)-centric nature of his deployment, his unit's largest...
This thesis aims to analyze the insurgency in Ukraine, organized shortly before WWII and led by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during WWI and in the years immediately after WWII. The main goal of this analysis is to determine if...
In this interview, MAJ Andrew DeKever, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the contracting branch officer in charge from 2008 through 2009 and then transition to Afghanistan as the support operations office in 2009 through 2010...
During his 2003 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Russ Meyer commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division. In this interview, he discusses leading his rifle company...
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...
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...
In this first of two interviews, Major Melissa Carter talks about commanding the 613th Movement Control Team in Mosul, Iraq from November 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She discusses how she really had no idea what...
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,...
In this second of two interviews, Major Melissa Carter talks about serving on a military transition team for the Iraqi 1st Motorized Transportation Regiment in Habbaniyah, Iraq from May 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom....
Major Pat Wentz was nearing the end of his tenure teaching ROTC at Niagara University when he volunteered to deploy as an individual augmentee, allowing him to attend the Command and General Staff College post deployment. Wentz was deployed from...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
US Marine Corps Maj Eric Penrod served as company commander of Charlie Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion (CEB) in Fallujah, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In the first of two February 2009 interviews,...
In this interview MAJ Rodney McCutcheon discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2003 with 3-69 Armor as the battalion chemical officer. Although MAJ McCutcheon was the chemical officer once they touched down in theater he served mainly as a battle...
Contractors now approach a 1:1 ratio on the modern battlefield since the Bosnia War. In 1992, contractor use was the choice of last resort, now contractors are a viable and necessary option on the battlefield. The steady decrease of military...
Major John Tabb deployed from January 2007 until January 2008 as both a border police transition team (BPTT) chief and an Afghan National Army (ANA) embedded training team (ETT) chief in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan -...
Major John Tabb deployed from January 2007 until January 2008 as both a border police transition team (BPTT) chief and an Afghan National Army (ANA) embedded training team (ETT) chief in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan -...
In this interview, MAJ Darrell Robinson, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as the Brigade Communications Officer in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MAJ Robinson discusses his personal experience with pre-deployment training,...
MAJ Eric Saulsbury served as battery commander in Tikrit, Iraq during 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as fire support officer (FSO) in Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) ...