1LT Donnelly details the Air Mission Set (AMS) building process used by the 38th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Donnelly relates the AMS process as not doctrinal, nor taught in school, and akin to "solving...
1LT Kurt Lovins served as a platoon leader of Alpha Company, 1st Platoon of the 7-11th Signal Company, 250th Signal Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2009 interview,...
1LT Michael Johnson begins his interview with an explanation of how the Air Force operates weather terms within the Iraq Theater. He relates how the Air Force places weather terms within the Army Brigade Combat Teams and Divisions, as well as...
"A couple days after September 11, 2001," said Major Roger Crombie, at the time commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, part of 10th Mountain Division, "we had an idea that we needed to be ready and that something was...
"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...
"My first experience with the Global War on Terrorism," said Major Joseph T. Irwin Jr., "was September 11, 2001. I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and our mission was to provide military support...
"Our mission is to fight our way in to isolated personnel and fight our way back out," explained US Air Force Major Jeremey Turner, a member of the 66th Rescue Squadron who, from January to April 2002, flew numerous missions in Afghanistan in...
"When someone asks me where I was stationed in Iraq," said Major Christian Teutsch, "it's hard to come up with an answer. I had 22 different command posts over the course of the deployment…. We were constantly being relieved, although we never...
A 2002 high school graduate, Sergeant Melanie Claggett had just started attending Cottey College, a two-year women's college in Neosho, Missouri, when she was activated with the 1011th Quartermaster Company in February 2003. Claggett, trained in...
A career conventional officer with extensive post-9/11 experience working with the special operations community, Major James Bogart served as the logistics officer (S4) for 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group from July 2002 through July 2003,...