Date:    November 12, 2007.

Topic:  The Iraq War.

Speaker:   Colonel Michael Howard, Retired with 32 years with the U. S. Marines.

Colonel Howard has made two deployments to Iraq as a participant with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in the original assault and capture of Baghdad in March and April 2003.    His second tour was also with "One MEF" as senior Marine Corps engineer liaison to the US Army and Coalition headquarters in Baghdad.