Retired from the Marine Corps.
Currently working as a contractor at the 2d MAW G2. Setting up their Information Warfare Coordination Center. This is a great initiative and should prove well worth the effort.
The company I am working for is JCTM, a small start-up that is hiring almost exclusively military veterans, as the customer wants experience in the military to fill positions.
NEO - Operation Noble Obelisk (Sierra Leone)
From Month/Year
May / 1997
To Month/Year
May / 1997
Description
When, on May 25, 1997, rebel forces and military officers overthrough the government of Sierra Leone, a U.S. Army Special detachment already in the country for joint training exercises, moved to the capital of Freetown to secure the U.S. Embassy and its two residential compounds. It also identified an appropriate location for a helicopter landing zone (HLZ). By virtue of their on scene presence the Special Forces were able to provide the Marine Expeditionary commander with "real-time" intelligence concerning the conditions in the capital. Major General Samuel T. Helland was designated as Commander, Joint Task Force Noble Obelisk.
More than 400 Americans and more than 3000 third-country nationals were taken aboard Kearsarge over 4 days.
The Marine 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina participated in the Noncombatants Evacuation Operation (NCO), as well as the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261. Naval Air Reservists provided logistical support.
