Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Don Schmidt stands outside the B Battery, 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery headquarters building at Fort Bliss, Texas on August 23, 2011.

Schmidt jumped into a raging, flood-swollen river on the outskirts of Tucson, Ariz., to save a drowning boy, 11-year-old Angel Sandoval, on July 23, 2011.

U.S. Army photo