In this interview with Major Lisa Gniady, she discusses her post-9/11 service as a communications officer in the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade, which provides the US Army's military support to the National Security Agency. She talks about her support of the Pentagon's National Military Command Center with continuity of government operations in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks until she left her position in March 2002. Gniady then went on to the theater-level 11th Signal Brigade, which provides tactical network capabilities to echelons-above-corps organizations, and took command of the 269th Signal Company, part of the 504th Signal Battalion. Based initially in Jordan and arriving in May 2003, her company had teams spread out in numerous locations, including Kuwait and throughout Iraq. Gniady discusses the range of signal support provided to CFLCC and also recounts how the headquarters very nearly had to undertake a dangerous ground convoy from Jordan to Kuwait but was airlifted there in the end. Gniady points to the restrictions on her movement and her inability to visit her far-flung teams as much as she would have liked as her principal frustration. She redeployed in October 2003.

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