In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint
Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal,
Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at
chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in
Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global
War on Terrorism (GWOT) broadly defined. Because the command was
over 90 percent Department of the Army (DA) civilians and heavily
augmented by contractors, the command realized by 2003 that they
were managing the largest ever deployment of DA civilians and
contractors into a combat area, and so, over 150 interviews were
conducted focusing on the GWOT-related experiences of DA civilian
members of the two commands during 2003 and 2004. Starting at the
same time, Mr. George Eaton, currently command historian at US Army
Sustainment Command (ASC), has conducted to date almost 200 more
interviews with DA civilians, contractors and uniformed military
personnel. This oral history project aims at delivering an overall
picture of the activities and duties of the various components of
AFSC and JMC and their combined efforts to support the Army's
worldwide operations. The interviews look at growing trends in
areas of both success and concern, while also accounting for how
logistics support commands have completely transformed operational-
and strategic-level logistics since 2003. ASC personnel are forward
deployed at every forward operating base in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kuwait, Qatar and Djibouti, among others. Indeed, what began as a
small operation in 2003 has become a robust organization, globally
deployed, and is now a key player in all four of the Army's
materiel imperatives: to sustain, transform, reset and prepare. The
following interview with Mr. Kevin Rohm, supply management
specialist/logistics assistance representatives, covers such topics
as being deployed to Iraq, CRC, LAR during Desert Shield/Desert
Storm, LAR during Iraqi Freedom, working conditions in Iraq, living
conditions in Iraq, wounded during mortar attack, DA civilian
wounded and the medical treatment of wounded DA civilians.
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