Cooley, James, “Cooley, James (Interview outline and video), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed March 19, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28733.
James Cooley joined the Army National Guard in 2003 at age 17, and served in the Iraq War. He worked in transportation while he was there, specifically he operated the .50 caliber machine gun on a truck that guarded convoys. He served a yearlong deployment, and at the time of the interview is scheduled for another year tour of duty.