Operation Iraqi Freedom Two: March 2004 to March 2005

After training for 16 months with an intensity that was almost more difficult than actual combat, I was chosen to become an Armored Crewman on an M1A2sep Abrams tank during 1st Cavalry Division's one year deployment to Baghdad, Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, designated O.I.F.2, or the second American rotation in Operation Iraqi Freedom. What follows is a series of short stories where I attempt to paint a realistic picture of my experiences as a front-line combat tanker. I make no apologies for my bluntness, for as Tim O'Brien says in The Things They Carried, in war there is “no redemption.”

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Templer, Victor

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Noll, Stephanie

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Hill, Andrew

• Abrams tank
• Iraq
• Sadr City
• O.I.F.2

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/5634

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/5634