Sergeant First Class Pedro Marrero was with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in Iraq from February 2004 until February 2005. He worked in the brigade tactical operations center (TOC) as the NCO in charge of the TOC and as a battle NCO. His...
Having commanded both a headquarters company and a Blackhawk helicopter company while with 2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment - part of the 4th Infantry Division - Major James Tenpenny's March 2003 to March 2004 service in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM...
Major Mike Volpe served as the assistant operations officer, the battalion logistics officer and finally as a rifle company commander for 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry attacking through Iraq to end up in the Mosul region from March 2003 through...
Major David Motes, in this second of three interviews, talks about being the commander of the 102nd Quartermaster Company, a general support petroleum company, in Iraq from March 2003 through February 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As...
In this third of three interviews, Major David Motes talks about being a member of the military transition team (MiTT) for the Iraqi 2nd Motor Transportation Regiment (MTR) stationed in Numaniyah from January through December 2005 in support of...
From February 2005 through February 2006, Major William Woodring, an Alaska National Guardsman, served on a brigade embedded training team (ETT) for the 209th Afghan National Army Corps as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and Task Force Phoenix...
During his August 2003 through July 2004 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Trent Darling deployed to Afghanistan with the 8th Psychological Operations Battalion and, initially, served as the liaison officer to the joint...
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...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. discusses his November 2005 through August 2006 deployment to Afghanistan during which he served as chief of the Special...
During his August 2005 through December 2006 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Douglas Merritt held two positions in the 172nd Infantry Brigade (Separate) out of Alaska - the Stryker Brigade. For the first six months...
This final interview of four with US Army Special Forces Major Jack Noyes regarding his Global War on Terrorism deployments covers, in part, his January through December 2006 service with the US Embassy in Bangladesh, which he calls "one of my most...
Upon relinquishing his three-year command of a Wisconsin National Guard field artillery battalion, Lieutenant Colonel John Schroeder was offered the opportunity to volunteer for embedded training team (ETT) duty in Afghanistan, which he took, was...
In this first of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Gregory Trahan discusses his command of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan beginning in...
Major Bill Galinger, Ordnance Corps, deployed from Fort Carson, Colorado, with 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group to support Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). As the Service Detachment commander, Galinger worked feverishly to plan and support...
In this first of three interviews, Major Patrick Pascall, a reservist, talks about his experiences as a civil affairs team leader in the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, from May 2002 through March 2003 in support of...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...
This second of three interviews with Major Jason Warner reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences covers his May to August 2003 deployment to Afghanistan as the intelligence officer for 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry (part of 2nd Brigade,...
From May 2005 through May 2006, Major Omega Harris served as a battalion military transition team (MiTT) leader in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he discusses his predeployment training, his working relationship with the...
Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Iraq for his second tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) in September 2006. He reported first to Fort Riley, Kansas, to undergo immersion training at FOB Victory,...
In April 2003, the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) reached the approaches of Baghdad, Iraq, after a record-breaking march from the Kuwaiti border. To test the strength of Iraqi defenses in the capital, 2nd BCT conducted an...