Senior Airman Greg Rodgers, left, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron medical technician, visits recent Purple Heart recipient U.S. Army Cpl. Paul Vanlinder, Charlie Company 1-21 Infantry Battalion, Jan. 4. The Fulton, N.Y., native was admitted to the intensive care unit here after being involved in an improvised explosive device attack near Abu Sayada, Iraq. Rodgers is a native of Little Rock, Ark., and is deployed from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.