Is There a Particular Incident You Can Recall Where a Person You Served with Demonstrated Extraordinary Devotion to Duty or Bravery? Please Describe What Happened and How This Impacted You:

Choosing a single act of devotion or bravery from a nearly thirty-year peacetime career is difficult—there were so many. I could tell of a Criminal Investigation Division agent who, on my birthday in 1993, lay prone beside me while a distraught soldier fired through his barracks door with intent to kill. A bullet passed dangerously close; the agent shielded me and took minor wounds. He shrugged it off as another day’s duty. But for my purposes I want to tell a different story—one that illustrates sustained, quiet leadership and extraordinary devotion to soldiers’ welfare.