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Warrant Officer Zarah Dimond works for the Cyberspace Defense Command. Already, you have the image – warrant? Computer nerd? Lord save us, can she make it from a distant parking space into the office with a laptop without resting? (Usedta be I would have said clipboard, but I’m old.) But you have the cliche in mind?<\/p>\n
Well, kiss it goodbye.<\/p>\n
The cyberspace defense soldier had arrived a day early at the Colorado Springs Colorado Hilton Garden Inn to attend a defensive cyber operations symposium at Fort Carson from her home station at Fort Stewart, Georgia where she serves with Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, according to an Army release.<\/p>\n
At first, she thought the smoke smell must be the car \u2014 maybe it was the heater.<\/p>\n
Then she looked up and saw people exiting a small business complex next door in a cloud of smoke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Unless someone is doing some community doobie (and it is Colorado here) that ain’t good. So she started asking folks if there was a fire, and they said yes.<\/p>\n
\nShe climbed over the railing and jumped onto a garbage can below before she got to the ground and began running toward the structure.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I\u2019m banging on the doors, I find a man stumbling his way through the hallway,\u201d Dimond said. \u201cI grabbed him by the arm and guided him towards the door to get him outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dimond went back into the burning building, gathering more people and leading a second person outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor those people who are in there, they have families, too,\u201d said Dimond. \u201cSomething as simple as going in there to get them out can save a whole life and a whole family from grief.\u201d\u00a0 Army Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She is stationed with Division HHC of 3rd Infantry at Ft. Gordon. Her units is putting her in for an Arcom… I would think after multiple trips into a burning building and guiding at least two people to safety, a but more would be indicated – had she been a field grade officer in a combat zone, she’d probably be looking at a higher award – but I’m glad she’s at least getting some recognition. She’s breaking the mold for ‘nerdy warrant officers’, and showing some definite commissioned-officer leadership.<\/p>\n
H\/t to Jeff LPH.<\/p>\n
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