MAJ Christopher Mulligan served as fire support officer (FSO) in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and on a military transition team (MiTT) in Salah ad-Din Province, Iraq during 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2012 interview, MAJ Mulligan discusses his deployment to Afghanistan, the pre-deployment training he received before deploying as part of a MiTT, and the challenges of working with the Iraqi Army (IA). MAJ Mulligan concludes his interview with the observation, "The Army needs to be very selective in the types of people that it chooses to train other military. I personally don't think that I have the right personality to do it really well. I did a lot of work, and I studied a lot of spent a lot of emotional energy trying to do it right, but I believe that there are people who probably would have done it better than me, just because their personality was skewed toward that more. I don't know what kind of tests you could give there; maybe it's just if you like doing it. I'm not really sure, but I think that's something. Here at ILE we study history, and a lot of the problems that we had on my MiTT sounded like those have historically been problems. I would say whatever we do, not to forget those lessons when we're talking about the MiTTs."

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