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Name: Adam T. Haas

Age: 24

Hometown: Jackson, Wis.

Military Rank/Unit: Sergeant, petroleum supply specialist, 192nd Quartermaster Company (Army Reserve out of Milan, Ohio) 68th CSSB

Tours: February 2007 – January 2008, Victory Base Complex (Camp Liberty & Camp Stryker) Baghdad, Iraq

ADAM T. HAAS

by Nate Tornow

The Pizza Call

When Adam Haas was a 19-year-old college freshman at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, he was unsure of how he was going to pay for his college education. His savings from his summer job was quickly dwindling. Then a National Guard recruiter paid a visit.

“There was a recruiter that came when I lived in the dorms, and I can’t remember why I went to the meeting...oh yeah, free pizza, that’s what it was. It wasn’t long after I paid my first semester’s tuition that he came and talked to us…I pretty much made the decision before even telling my parents that I was interested in joining the Army. My parents had their influences on me, but I approached it from the point of view that this is going to be a decision that I make. Mom and Dad can’t help you much when you’re in basic training and the drill sergeant is yelling at you…”

The rest of the story can be found in the book War: Through Their Eyes, which is sold at the University Books & More.

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