No. 770 John Reed, 2013

File — Box: 73, Folder: 13

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret.) John Reed, US Army Reserve, discusses his deployment to Iraq and service with MNSTC-I in 2007-2008. A combat engineer, LTC Reed was working as a history professor at the University of Utah at his time of deployment. He discusses his motivations for joining the Army Reserve and fills in some background before moving to the interview’s primary topic. He touches on his state of physical and military preparedness for deployment, living conditions and restrictions in his area, his time in Kurdistan and “outside the wire,” his redeployment to the United States at the end of his tour, and his reinsertion into the classroom. He also discusses his feelings regarding Kurdish and non-Kurdish Iraqis, his perceptions of the relations between different services, between active-duty and reserve components of the Army, and on his role as a field-grade officer in a combat zone without a command.
Project: Iraq and Afghanistan oral history project.
Interviewer: Leighton Quarles

Dates

2013

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.