 Born July 13th, 1970, Sergeant First Class Alwin Cash grew up to modest circumstances in a large family in Oveda, Florida and joined the U.S. Army in 1988. He deployed to Iraq in 2005 as a platoon sergeant, where he and his soldiers patrolled constantly to quell an intensifying insurgency. His comrades remember him as a big brother. October 17th, Cash's Bradley fighting vehicle was struck by an IED while on patrol. Soaked in fuel, he retrieved six soldiers and an interpreter one by one from the inferno inside the vehicle while flames ravaged most of his body. Four members of the crew ultimately perished at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Cash was the last, succumbing to his wounds on November 8th, 2005.