The Spear

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Valor in Sadr City
December 12, 2024

Long before his selection as the fifteenth sergeant major of the Army, Dan Dailey served multiple combat deployments in Iraq, first during Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s and then in Operati

The A-10 At War
December 05, 2024

In this episode, retired US Air Force Col. Kim Campbell joins to share a story from 2003. A career A-10 pilot, her squadron was deployed to the Middle East at the beginning of the war in Iraq. During

A Fight Inside the Wire
November 22, 2024

In this episode ofThe Spear, MWI's John Amble is joined by Major Tyson Walsh. In 2013, during a deployment in Afghanistan, he was working out alone late at night on the heavily fortified Bagram Airfi

Leadership in the Ranger Regiment and 4ID
November 06, 2024

Command Sergeant Major Alex Kupratty enlisted in the Army after a year at the Virginia Military Institute and was immediately assigned to the 75thRanger Regiment, where he spent most of the next twen

Military Cross in Afghanistan
October 18, 2024

For his service with the Household Cavalry during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2013, British Army Major Al Pickthall was ultimately awarded the Military Cross, a decoration presented by the United K

Emergency Deployment with the Ranger Regiment
October 11, 2024

While serving as a company executive officer with the 1st Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2016, Ryan Crayne and his company were training at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center

Combat in a Technological War
September 10, 2024

In 2016, Brennan Deveraux was deployed to a small base in Baghdad called Union III. An artillery officer, Brennan worked in a small group known as a strike cell, where he was the theater-level rocket

A Helicopter and an IED
August 27, 2024

As a lieutenant, Maj. Jesse Lansford was deployed to Afghanistan. A Kiowa helicopter pilot assigned as an aviation platoon leader, he rarely found himself on foot outside the wire. But on one day his

Sniper Fire in Baghdad
August 15, 2024

In the fall of 2006, Rory McGovern was a company fire support officer assigned to a combined arms team operating in the area around Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The day after Christmas, he was on a security patr

One Day in Panjwai District
August 02, 2024

Lt. Col. Brian Kitching joins this episode of The Spearto share a story from a 2012 deployment in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar Province.Two months into the deployment, the company he commanded wa