The 'luckiest, unlucky' firefighter
Brig. Gen. Darryl Roberson, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing commander, pins the Purple Heart on Tech. Sgt. John Knight, 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, May 7. Sergeant Knight was given the Purple Heart after a mortar landed on his living quarters in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he sustained multiple soft-tissue shrapnel wounds and a ruptured ear drum, May 6. (Courtesy photo)