‘I couldn’t let anyone die out there’
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, July 3, 2008
ARLINGTON, Va. —Army Sgt. Omar Hernandez traveled a long, hard road on his way to earning the Silver Star.
Hernandez, 27, came to the United States from Mexico with his family when he was 6 months old.
He joined the Army Reserve at age 19 as an engineer, and went to Iraq for the first time in February 2003. He switched to the regular Army in March 2004 as an infantryman and was promptly sent back to Iraq. He earned his citizenship after his second Iraq tour.
Hernandez was deployed for the third time in November 2006, as part of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Bliss, Texas. The unit has since changed its name to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.
Five months into the deployment, Hernandez and other 4-1 soldiers moved from Forward Operating Base Kalsu in Iskandariyah to Baghdad, where they were assigned to Joint Security Station "Maverick" in Ghazaliya, a primarily Sunni Baghdad neighborhood.
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I served with Omar, he is one of the greatest Americans I've ever met.
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