U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Chris Seaton
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christian Smith (right), a Villa Grove native, checks the work of a soldier underneath a military humvee.
One definition of a hero is someone who runs toward an emergency when others are running from it.
That would apply to Villa Grove native Chief Warrant Officer Christian Smith, a vehicle maintenance technician at Camp Taji in Iraq.
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