John Drag, Jr., a reviewer for MultiMedia & Internet @Schools magazine and principal of the Broward Community Charter School West in Coral Springs, Florida, will be working near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq for the next 12 months.

Drag will be serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army at Camp Liberty West, located near Baghdad. He has been in the military for more than 20 years, serving as an officer stationed in Germany and as a member of the Army Reserves.

A reporter from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel recently followed Drag as he talked with his students about his upcoming deployment. An article about his school good-byes can be found online at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/sfl-flbdrag0125sbjan26,0,1158052.story.