THE GLOBAL WAR on TERRORISM
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM

195th CONTRACT SUPERVISION
DETACHMENT
(Orlando, Florida)
February 2003- November 2003

Office of Army Reserve History
United States Army Reserve Command
Fort McPherson, Georgia

Dennis M. Hatcher
Kathryn Roe Coker
Introduction/Lessons Learned Editor
Office of Army Reserve History United States Army Reserve Command Fort McPherson, Georgia 2008

Foreword

The Global War on Terrorism-Operation Iraqi Freedom: 195h Contract Supervision Detachment is one in a series of histories of Army Reserve units deployed in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). This includes Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. The histories are based on primary sources collected by the Office of Army Reserve History’s GWOT Military History Task Force. The task force provides program management, central collection, and archiving of unit histories. The former Chief, Army Reserve Lieutenant General James Helmly, stated the importance of this collection effort:

The Army Reserve is experiencing a time of great transition to meet present and future challenges to our national security. The events of this transition, while still fresh, must be captured and documented to preserve the story of the Army Reserve’s contribution to this unprecedented war. The result will be a unique archive of the wartime accomplishments of all mobilized Army Reserve units, not only of this war, but for all future defense commitments. Nowhere else within the United States Government does an official archive of the Army Reserve exist.

The records collected include narratives with a mission statement, after action reviews or lessons learned, personnel rosters, mobilization orders, demobilization orders, unit briefing slides, photographs, and autobiographical sketches. This information is used to record and to preserve the Army Reserve’s contributions to GWOT. This volume and other unit histories included in the series, as compiled from these records, provide an invaluable resource for the Army Reserve and its Soldiers to learn from their own experiences and retain lessons learned for future operations.

Fort McPherson
Atlanta, Georgia
August 2008

LEE S. HARFORD, JR., Ph.D.
Army Reserve Historian
United States Army Reserve