Medal of Honor Recipient David Bellavia: Values-based Leadership Starts with Character
Staff Sgt. David Bellavia left Iraq a hero – the man who stormed a house in a torrent of machine gun fire in Fallujah, to save his platoon amid the bloodiest battle of the war. But when he came home, he was largely alone.
For more than a decade, he struggled with family issues, a lack of direction and place and perhaps most of all the loss of the brotherhood he felt with his unit: the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, or as they called themselves, the Ramrods.