Polar Pete serves his country

Remember Polar Pete from the Kickoff at the beginning of the year? Well, it turns out his only skill isn't locating and selling frozen treats. He is also serving in the Army as a JAG officer and helping Iraq establish its system of justice!

That’s because Polar Pete Brake is also Captain Pete Brake, member of the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps and assigned to assist the Iraqi government in prosecuting what it calls crimes against the coalition.
“It’s a strange feeling, driving an ice cream truck on weekends and then getting on a train to come back to the Pentagon and spending the week helping prosecute insurgents, the kinds of people who plant the road-side bombs that you see on the news.”
Brake, who was already a lawyer when he enlisted in the Army following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, had been on reserve duty, working at a law firm when the call came. The Army mobilized him for a period of at least one year and possibly as long as two years. Currently, Brake spends five days a week in Washington and catches a train home on the weekends.
“I’m lucky because it’s really not that far, but five hours is still a long commute,” he said. “It’s a challenge, logistically, but I can’t complain. I knew what I was getting into when I signed up, and I get to come home on weekends. There’s a lot of guys that are sacrificing a whole lot more than I am.”
And considering the only reason he is in the Army is because of the attacks against the Pentagon and World Trade Center, going to work in the building is a powerful experience.

We're proud of you, Polar Pete.