Sgt Robert Henshaw

Marine Corps | Tactical Network Specialist

Dates of Service: Nov 2005 - Oct 2013

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Joined 1/11 HQ Battery in 2006. Deployed to TQ, Iraq '07-'08. PCA'd to CLR-17 upon my return. Volunteered to PCA to CLB-7 in 2009 for another deployment to Sahl Sinjar, Iraq. One week prior to my original EAS, I was "voluntold" to interview for IMEF CG's Driver/PSD. I was extended for one year to travel with the IMEF CG as his PSD, back and forth to Afghanistan for a 2 week in, 2 week out rotation

Military Experiences

Nov 2010 - Aug 2011

Command Driver/Personal Security Detail

1st HQ, I MHG, I MEF | Camp Pendleton, CA

Driver/Personal Security Detail for LtGen Waldhauser, IMEF CG. Spent about one year traveling back and forth to Afghanistan with the CG. It was a great experience in the sense that I got to see 20+ countries in our travels. It was a bad experience in the sense that I hated going to Afghanistan for only a week or two at a time, and then have to leave our Marines to go back to the states. I just wanted to stay in country with the others every time we were there. We'd travel for 2 weeks, be stateside for 2 weeks, then travel again.

Oct 2008 - Nov 2010

Data Chief

Commo Co, CLR 17, 1st MLG, I MEF | Camp Pendleton, CA

"Backyard" field ops... lame, lame, very lame... No organization whatsoever. A field op isn't a field op if I can still see a PX across the street. Took every chance I could to get away. Unfortunately, I only got the one chance with CLB 7.

Feb 2009 - Sep 2009

Network Technician

H&S Co, CLB 7, CLR 1, 1st MLG | Twentynine Palms, CA

Volunteered to PCA to this unit for another deployment. We were a small communications detachment in Camp Pendleton before we finally met the unit in Twentynine Palms. Once in Iraq, I volunteered to go north to Sahl Sinjar with 6 communications Marines. I was placed as communications chief while there. Provided communications support for operations conducted by 3rd LAR.

Jul 2006 - Oct 2008

Network Technician

HQ Battery, 1/11, 11th Marines, 1st MARDIV | Camp Pendleton, CA

Field ops, field ops, and more field ops... Loved it... Deployed to Al Taqaddum, Iraq in 2006. Ended up getting extended for extra 4 months due to lack of a replacement unit. Provided network administration for the HQ Battery staff.