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Brown receives the Silver Star from Vice President Dick Cheney in March 2008.. Monica Lin Brown (born 24 May 1988) [4] is a United States Army sergeant and medic who became the first woman during the War in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the United States military's third-highest medal for valor in combat.
Heather Lynn Johnsen is a former U.S. Army soldier and former member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, best known as the highly prestigious "The Old Guard" or Honor Guard Company sentinel of Company E, 4th Battalion.
Kristen Marie Griest (born October 2, 1989) is one of the two first women, along with Shaye Lynne Haver, to graduate from the United States Army Ranger School, which occurred on 21 August 2015. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Griest and Haver were ranked 34th on Fortune magazine's 2016 list of the World's Greatest Leaders. [ 4 ]
The authorized biography, I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg describes Lynch as being sodomized during captivity, [20] although the Iraqi doctors who rescued and treated her denied that they had found evidence of sexual assault. [21] [22] [23]
Allan J. Kellogg – platoon sergeant of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, during the Vietnam War. Jacklyn H. Lucas – youngest Marine to receive the Medal of Honor [4] John F. Mackie – first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor [5]
Jacinta Migo became the Air Force's first American Samoan woman promoted to the position of chief master sergeant. [514] Women in the Air Force began to be allowed to wear their hair in "up to two braids or a single ponytail with bulk not exceeding the width of the head, and length not extending below a horizontal line running between the top ...
Platoon Sergeant Frank Lowell Few and two Marines went back into the jungle to confirm that Goettge was indeed dead. They found his body and took his watch and insignia, so the Japanese would not be able to identify him as an officer. Over the next nine hours, the patrol lay pinned on the beach.
Ernest Thomas was born in Tampa, Florida, the son of Ernest and Martha Thomas.When he was a child, his family moved to Monticello, Florida. [4] He graduated from high school in Monticello and was attending Tri-State University in Angola, Indiana, studying aeronautical engineering, when he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps at Orlando, Florida. [5] "