Sergeant Zack Bazzi is a Lebanese-born Arab who escaped from the Lebanon Civil War with his family at age 10. His mother Sana doesn’t want him to go to war, but Bazzi says one reason he joined the military was to travel and see the world, and he has been deployed overseas twice before –…
Specialist Mike Moriarty was so moved by the 9/11 attacks that he joined the National Guard. As an Army reservist during the first Gulf War, Moriarty’s unit was ready to ship out to Iraq just as the war ended. He says he rejoined the Guard because he “could not stand to see another soldier die…
Sergeant Stephen Pink is a wise-cracking former reporter who made a “rash decision” to join the National Guard for college money — and to prove to himself that he could do it. Born and raised in Kingston, Massachusetts, he’s a sensitive guy deep down (as his girlfriend, Lindsay Coletti, says), and he keeps a journal…
