Eddie Avila, Honorable Mention, Military Times Soldier of the Year
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010One of the veterans I profiled in my 2008 Columbia j-school master’s project recently received honorable mention recognition by the Military Times for Army Soldier of the Year. Staff Sgt. Eduardo Avila is an instructor assigned to the small arms readiness group at Fort Dix, N.J., but he won the award for his dedication to the Boy Scout troop he revived in Queens, N.Y. where he resides.
Photo taken in 2005 when Avila was serving in Iraq