I had the pleasure to serve under Col. Piatt as a Wolfhound in the Paktika province of Afghanistan. It is an expierience I will always treasure. I learned more about myself and the nobility of soldiering in that year than any other. I can say that Col. Piatt is an officer who lives his beliefs and leads by example. He was the soldier with the most "wheel time" and the longest time "outside the wire" in the Battalion. In essence that meant he spent more of our deployment in a vehicle, on the frontiers,in the face of danger than any of the soldiers in his command.This behaviour goes a long way to inspire an Infantryman who is tired, scared and homesick. Thanks again Sir, No Fear!