In this May 2009 interview MAJ Bob Orsi, Military Intelligence (MI), discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2007 as an individual augmentee to Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I). MAJ Orsi volunteered to fill the deputy counterintelligence (CI)/human...
Principally working on the joint operations center bridge in Bagram, Afghanistan, during his March 2004 to March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Joseph Rawlings served as the CJ4 battle captain for Combined Joint...
Before 9/11, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Falk was serving as executive officer for a field artillery battalion in the California National Guard, in addition to holding a civilian job. Following the terrorist attacks, though, as he explained, "I got some...
This interview is an account of the experiences of Mr. Ronald G. and Mrs. Beverly A. Payne as parents of soldiers serving in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The Paynes have two sons currently serving in the US Army: Darren, a veteran of two...
Major Paul Berg served as the personnel officer for 7-101 Aviation Battalion, a Chinook battalion, when he was notified in November 2001 that he was going to be deployed on 180-day orders in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in January 2002....
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...