US Army - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Army Index / Organizations Transcripts Janet Napolitano ...You're not in the Department of the Army or the Navy; you're a part of th... Daryl Johnson ...the ATF? It was actually with the US Army as a civilian. And that was also a... ...threat assessments for the secretary of the Army , who was traveling. His name was Tog... ...his ethnicity and race. So I assisted the Army CID [Criminal Investigative Division... ...protective detail for the secretary of the Army when he would travel. So I woul... ...in the area, and if they were aware of the Army secretary traveling there, and thing... ...input to different projects that the Army was doing. They had vulnerabilit... ...on the other hand—when I worked for the Army , they were—it was a new thing. The... ...the extremists within our own ranks of the Army . There was an issue there. I mentione... Show more... Jane Lute ...half of Clinton one. Then, I left the Army and went to work on a project o... ...I was a signal officer in the Army from 1978 forward, so this was sort o... ...body. And I'm a soldier. I came out of the Army . I came out of that world. It was ... ...with the military. I get it. I was in the Army . It was great. But that's not what w... ...People where I come from didn't join the Army . Women, certainly in those days... ...in those days, weren't really joining the Army . But I was really proud to be in th... ...But I was really proud to be in the US Army . Still am. I'm married to a soldier... ...second nature to me. Whether you're in the Army , and you prepare for contingencie... Show more... James Clapper ...particularly my father. He served in the Army for twenty-eight years as a... ...organizations that had been part of the US Army —the Missile and Space Intelligenc... John Brennan ...where you bring the different services— the Army , the Navy, the Marines, the Ai... Robert Gates ...Ham, who was the commander of the US Army forces in Europe, and the cochair was ... ...the Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Army . Anyway, Rahm reached a deal with th... Chuck Hagel ...to that Secretary Hagel served in the US Army as an infantry squad leader during th... ...Cross of Gallantry, two Purple Hearts, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Comba... ...too big or do we need more ships? Is the Army about right?” Questions about the job... ...up there, the Navy or the Air Force or the Army , and saying, ‘Try to keep us whole... ...to keep us whole, but take it out of the Army . They have too much money,' or the Ai... ...[Raymond “Ray” T.] Odierno did with the Army , and all of his generals did, and th... ...Command and with the chief of staff of the Army , with the chairman of the Joint Chief... Show more... Hadi Pir ...I graduated in June, and I joined the US Army in July. Because I just graduated... ...Then in 2004, I was in Mosul with the US Army , and they were almost shooting u... ...so basically I was to help the US Army to communicate with the Iraqis. My jo... ...to do that, and also to help the US Army to train the Iraqi army, and also t... ...did not have any issues with the US Army or with the US ideology, with any o... ...to stick to this job. If I go home, the Army would forget about me, if there i... ...people now know I'm associated with the US Army . I did try to quit once, and I applie... ...my friend got killed with the US Army , and I was not in a situatio... ...to IOM, and then in 2010, when the US Army left our areas, and left Sinjar an... ...left Sinjar and most of West Nineveh, the Army asked me if I want to go with them t... ...I just rewind one second? You said the Army asked you about whether you would com... ...lot of times I've been asked about the US Army and the people. The US Army mission i... ...about the US Army and the people. The US Army mission is to protect the Constitution... ...so you see all kind of people in the Army . But I had very good friends, eve... ...Yeah, all these reasons. The absence of US Army , because as an interpreter, you didn'... ...to if there's something happening? The US Army were the people you interacted with... ...for, and they are gone. Then, if the US Army left the area, what's going to happen... ...it was the safeguard, was the US Army . As soon as the US Army left, it'... ...was the US Army. As soon as the US Army left, it's just like you count th... ...No, initially, I had a friend in the Army , he was a Special Forces sergeant, ... ...are there. The US is backing them. The US Army are still in Kurdistan. The Peshmerg... ...skeptic. I told them I worked for the US Army , and I know these leaders you tal... ...to do that? Again, working for the US Army for seven years, and then doing my bes... ...I knew they're not going to send the Army back to protect. I knew they're no... ...home. But most of us who worked for the Army interacted with those people when the... ...our guards. When I was working for the US Army , we had some guards. Most of them wer... ...what they heard from Erbil, from the US Army in Erbil and Kurdish Peshmerg... ...the ground.” What can we do about that? US Army is not there. But the US Army i... ...that? US Army is not there. But the US Army in Erbil, they're in contact with som... ...of mine, who was a sergeant major in the Army , Eric Geressy, who is in Florida now... ...Iraqis who are affected by ISIS. The US Army continued to bomb, I would say, most o... ...the US government functioned, how the US Army structured, their relations with Iraq... ...with Iraqi officials, working for the US Army , dealing with US officials for year... Show more... 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