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Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
First Sergeant
First Sergeant of a 16 week One Station Unit Training (OSUT) basic training unit located at the Maneuver Center of Excellence on Fort Benning, GA. Responsible for the welfare, training and professional development of 10 Drill Sergeants, 15 Instructors and 165 trainees.
Dec 2009 - Jun 2011
Platoon Sergeant
Platoon Sergeant of a light, Airborne, scout platoon during deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2008-2009). Responsible for the health, morale, welfare, training, and battlefield success and conduct of 15 Cavalry Scouts, 1 medic, 1 Motarman, and 1 Jordanian and 1 Iraqi National (Interpreters).
Senior NCO responsible for the planning, training and mission resourcing of joint combat operations with the 9th Iraqi Army during August 2009 (TF LAITH operated out if FOB HAMMER).
Jul 2006 - Jun 2008
Platoon Sergeant
Platoon Sergeant of a light, Airborne, OPFOR unit. Highly trained and organized to fight insurgent warfare in the asymmetric battlefield. Responsible for the health, welfare, morale, training, and professional development of 15 Cavalry Scouts. Our mission was to present rotational units with the most realistic and update tactics, techniques and procedures used by the fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan prior to that units deployment.
Operated STX lanes, and 4-6 week field rotations as IED makers, emplacers, informants, ambushers, snipers and counterintelligence agents.
Deployments
(9 months)Aug 2003 - Apr 2004
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
A Troop 1-17 CAV, 82nd Airborne Division; only ground Reconnaissance Troop in the Division at the time. Located at TQ - ran missions along Rte10 thru Fallujah, Tamari, Taji, Baghdad, Camp Byers, Jordan, and others during that first year.
Military Credentials
Professional Development Schools
Individual & Special Skill Schools
0 - 2008
Applied Suicide Intervention and Training (ASIST)
Security Clearance
Secret
Academic Degrees
Academic Degrees