Soldiers Angels New York: Every Day Hero
Brooks, 25, was a heavy equipment operator with the 618th Engineer Company, 82nd Airborne Division, at Forward Operating Base Summerall, Iraq, on June 25, 2007, when insurgents detonated a homemade car bomb next to a perimeter wall. ... Seeing that numerous fellow soldiers and Iraqi police lay wounded and exposed near the blast site, Brooks ran to a bulldozer and began moving debris and scrap metal to fill the hole in the perimeter wall. Ignoring enemy small-arms fire, ...