MAJ Curtis Perkins served as the assistant brigade logistics officer (S4) with 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (ID) and company commander of the 1-12 Infantry in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 and as operations officer (S3) with 4th Brigade, 1st CAV at Combat Operating Base (COB) Adder during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2010 interview, MAJ Perkins explains the benefits of the Army's shift toward modularity, the challenges of performing his mission when it was not the one his unit had trained for, and the changes he noticed (for the better) between his two deployments. MAJ Perkins concludes his interview with the observation, "I don't think we've fully grasped the effects of what continuous combat in this form has done to our fighting force and to the people who are going to go back into society. When I retire I'm going to be a citizen; could be a potential leader in the government. We just have to take a look back at some of the things that happen and see how they're really effecting the direction the US goes from this point."

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