This is a transcript from a taped oral history interview with SGM Dennis Thompson, former Vietnam Conflict prisoner of war (audio version also available in USASMA digital library). He was interviewed by MSG Ransic Refeus for the US ARMY SERGEANTS...
This is a transcript of a lecture given by Sergeant Major Dennis Thompson, former Vietnam War POW, to USASMA Class of 1983. He talks about his imprisonment and what he learned from it, including how he survived, advice on how to prepare for the...
This is an oral history interview with Sergeant Major of the Army (Ret.) William o. Wooldridge, the first Sergeant Major of the Army, conducted on 6 February 2000.
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with SGM Ada L. Mercado-Morales. It is dated: February 27, 1989. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive.
SGM Mercado talks about joining the service, her time in...
MAJ Thomas Fuller served with the 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (SFG) in Kabul and Bagram, Afghanistan during 2002 and 2003, and with the 2nd Battalion, 20th SFG in Herat, Afghanistan during 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
Emerson, Henry E., 1925-; Jackson, Jonathan R.; Dabrowski, John R. (John Raymond); US Army Military History Institute. Oral History Branch.; Army War College (U.S.)
This oral history transcript is a part of the academic year 2004, US Army War College/US Army Military History Institute's Senior Officer Oral History Program, prepared under the auspices of the Institute's Oral History Branch.
LTG Emerson was...
This is a transcript of a taped interview with Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge, conducted by Sergeant Major Erwin H. Koehler (United States Army, retired) for the Center of Military History, United States Army and the United States...
This is a transcript from a 1994 interview with Sergeant major of the Army Glen E. Morrell (USA-Ret.) for the US Army museum of the noncommissioned officer sergeants major of the ARMY book project.
This is a transcript of an interview with Sergeant Major of the Army Leon L. Van Autreve (USA- ret.) conducted in 1994 for the Sergeants major of the Army History Project.
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...
During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...
Command Sergeant Major Philip Johndrow has served three rotations in Iraq beginning with Operation Iraqi Freedom I in 2003 as a squadron command sergeant major in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (Light). His subsequent tours were also as command...
Roughly a month after taking command of Bravo Company, 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Tactical Exploitation System) in November 2002, Major Art La Flamme received his deployment order and, by January, was at Ahmed Al Jaber Airbase in Kuwait...
Gordon Rudd, PhD, deployed in support of what would later become the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and eventually the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a professor of...
MAJ James Sturm served as company commander of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in Iskandiriyah, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 and as executive officer (XO) on a Stability Transition Team (STT) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2010 both in support...
In this interview MAJ Scott Stokoe, Medical Service Corps, describes his deployment to Afghanistan as a member of an embedded training team (ETT). MAJ Stokoe discusses the challenges he experienced in training at Fort Riley, Kansas and how the...
The commander of 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-2005, Colonel Steven Bullimore, in this interview, begins by explaining how he went about re-training his artillery soldiers to be infantrymen and...
The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
In 2003, Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and Joint Munitions Command (JMC) - then a unified major subordinate command of Army Material Command - began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the...