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...
A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Major Scott McConnell served as the G3 advisor to the 5th Iraqi Army Division in 2004-2005. In this interview, he begins by describing the predeployment training at Camp Atterbury,...
"This 1981 circular focuses on the fire support operations common to the fighting elements of a brigade-size force. It addresses the fire support team (FIST) at company-size units and fire support sections (FSS) at maneuver battalion-and...
In this second of two interviews, Major Joe Hansen talks about serving as the division support brigade assistant logistics officer for the 24th Corps Support Group from January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
Major Rob Arnold returned from his deployment with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and joined the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as the military police plans officer in January 2004. In August 2005, Arnold deployed with the 172nd as the...
Major Michael Borgel served as the assistant operations officer for the 384th Military Police Battalion at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from May 2003 through June 2004. Borgel was part of a Reserve unit when he was notified of...
The former commander of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment during its transformation to a Stryker unit, Colonel Emmett Schaill deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2004 through June 2005 as the deputy commanding officer...
Major Michael Borgel served as the operations officer for the 494th Military Police Battalion at Camp Cropper, the high-value detention facility, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2006 through September 2007. Borgel was a part of...
Major Chris Medina served as the deputy provost marshal for 10th Mountain Division in Kabul from January through December 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the need for negotiation training among those...
Staff Sergeant Brian Charnock, a reservist from the 98th Division (Institutional Training), served as a member of an advisor support team (AST) in Iraq in 2004-2005. He starts this interview by saying that, while his initial impression of their...
Major LaDaryl Franklin served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division from April 2007 through April 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Franklin discusses...
In this second of two interviews, Major Anthony Nelson talks about commanding a military intelligence company in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He discusses additional predeployment training that his human...
MAJ John Hill served as the liaison officer (LNO) and military to military (mil to mil) planner with Alpha Company, 1-16 Infantry in Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen during 2006 and 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa...
MAJ Ed Vedder deployed to Iraq in support of OIF from August 2007 until December 2008 to COB Speicher, Iraq. MAJ Vedder, an attack helicopter pilot, deployed initially as the XO for 1-1 Attack and halfway through the deployment was sent to Fort...
MAJ Marvin Brown served as the deputy division personnel officer (G1) and deputy coalition joint personnel officer (CJ1) with the 101st Airborne Division at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...