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            <title>Meet Staff Sergeant Christopher Waiters...</title>
            <description><![CDATA[...holder of the Distinguished Service Cross.&nbsp; From the Army News Service:



After being struck by an IED in Baqubah, Iraq, a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle immediately caught fire with its occupants still inside. Spc. Christopher Waiters, a senior medic assigned to 5-20 Inf. attempts to climb into the burning BFV to rescue a Soldier trapped in the vehicle after he had treated and safe-guarded two other casualties back to his Stryker Medical Evacuation Vehicle.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. - The deep boom of an explosion shook the ground and awoke Staff Sgt. Christopher Waiters from sleep on April 5, 2007. The 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Soldier had bedded down seconds before at the end of a nine-hour guard-duty shift in Old Baqubah.

A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device had detonated on a street nearby, engulfing a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and its crew in flames,

That insurgent attack led to the events that culminated in Waiters' receiving a Distinguished Service Cross, only the 17th awarded since the war on terrorism began and the first to a Fort Lewis-based Soldier. 

The DSC is the Army's second highest award given for &quot;extraordinary heroism ... while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing or foreign force,&quot; according to the Army regulation that governs military awards, AR 600-8-22. The regulation states, &quot;The act or acts of heroism must have been so notable and have involved risk of life so extraordinary as to set the individual apart from his or her comrades.&quot;

Waiters arrived at Fort Lewis Monday from his new duty station, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to receive the award from Army Vice Chief of Staff, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, in a Thursday ceremony at Soldiers Field House. Waiters visited Monday with reporters at I Corps headquarters to recall the day 18 months ago when he put the lives of fellow Soldiers above his own.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:22:19 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from fdcol63 on 2008-10-27</title>
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                <![CDATA[Compare and contrast SGT&nbsp;Waiters and his multiple wounds and willingness to stay with his unit, and Le Grand Poseur de 2004, John Effing Kerry, who got 3 PH's for scratches and bugged out as soon as he could.]]>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:26:21 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Chuck Simmins on 2008-10-27</title>
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                <![CDATA[I can't believe the pic. Great example of right place, right time.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:31:33 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from RetRsvMike on 2008-10-27</title>
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                <![CDATA[holy crap....<br />
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free beer for Doc, wherever he goes, for the rest of his life.<br />]]>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:05:29 -0600</pubDate>
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