While on duty, 1st Lt. Sergio Padilla, 316th Wing Protocol duty officer, greets the nation’s top leaders and foreign heads of state. Off-duty, he is a predator among prey. He runs through the valley of snipers and fears no Flatlines as one of the elite paintball players in the country. As is said in the paintball community, ‘‘Welts heal. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.”