Staff Sgt. Al Lorenz USAR (1870 - 1917)

Staff Sgt. Al Lorenz, USAR, transferred into the Army National Guard in the 80s, and to the Army Reserves in 1993. Refusing to serve under Bill Clinton, Staff Sgt. Lorenz resigned from the military honorably in 1994. Then on the first day of the Iraq invasion he volunteered to return from civilian life and requested combat duty with the specific aim of helping to take care of the young soldiers he had seen on TV. He deployed to Iraq from February to October 2004.