Lance and Adam were best friends. When Lance joined the Army, Adam signed up, too. They were in the same unit and were deployed together. Lance took a bullet for Adam.

"I was just so happy to see him back," he says of his friend's return from Iraq after being wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED). "He had been on my

"I was just like 'Oh my God,'" he says now of his time with him at Fort Bragg-Bryan's Air Force Base where they served as platoon leaders during World