HM1 Daniel Rodgers

1st Battalion (Light Infantry), 1st Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, Tal Afar, Iraq Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Daniel Rodgers saved the life of an elderly boater while serving aboard the dock landing ship Trenton. Now a medical adviser to an Iraqi army battalion, he saved the lives of at least 20 Iraqi soldiers before a medevac helicopter could arrive, and when he noticed a suspicious wound on an Iraqi insurgent, he searched the man's garage and found explosives, ammunition and tools for making improvised explosive devices. An Army officer stationed with Rodgers wrote that he "has nerves of steel and is not easily rattled."