Lieutenant Colonel Rodney W. Symons II is currently a strategic planner at the US Army's Armor School at Fort Knox. He was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from July 2004 to July 2005. Symons was initially an advisor to the...
To relate how Joint Task Force Seven assembled, organized, and dircted the components of this effort--in short, how Operation Redwing became a reality, is the purpose of this account.