In this interview, MAJ Sherry Southard, US Army, Signal Corps, discusses her deployments to Iraq as a node center platoon leader in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Southard describes her reaction to arriving in country and details a specific memory about a Soldier's fatality. MAJ Southard talks about how mentorship inspired her to become a better leader and closes her interview with discussing complacency.

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