Judges of the 2003 History Writing Contest.

Colonel Bruce A. Brant is the Army Forces Command Inspector General at Fort McPherson, Georgia. He holds three master's degrees, including a Master of Military Arts and Science with a concentration in History from the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Among other assignments, he commanded the 214th Field Artillery Brigade, III Corps Artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the Combined Battlefield Coordination Detachment in Korea.

Lieutenant Colonel William G. Pitts is the Chief of the Doctrine Division, in the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill. Currently, he is deployed to Iraq as the Fire Support Observer compiling lessons learned during Operation Iraqi Freedom for a book to be published by the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), Fort Leavenworth. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Civil War History and a Master of Arts in History from American Military University, Virginia.

Mark K. Megehee has been the Field Artillery Specialist at the Fort Sill Museum for the past 10 years. He holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Oklahoma. He has more than 18 years' experience with US Army museums, including as Curator of the Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leavenworth. He has published military articles and papers, several of which were featured recently on the History Channel--"Tales of the Gun: Big Guns" and "Dangerous Missions: Forward Observers."