A 2002 high school graduate, Sergeant Melanie Claggett had just started attending Cottey College, a two-year women's college in Neosho, Missouri, when she was activated with the 1011th Quartermaster Company in February 2003. Claggett, trained in...
A classics scholar, New York City district attorney and U.S. Marine Corps reservist, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos volunteered for active duty after September 11, 2001, and joined the hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is, however, perhaps...