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Emily Perez was the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks. She was the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq. [1] Perez was buried at the West Point Cemetery. [citation needed]
An independent British-American group, the Iraq Body Count project (IBC project) compiles reported Iraqi civilian deaths resulting from war since the 2003 invasion and ensuing insurgency and civil war, including those caused directly by coalition military action, Iraqi military actions, the Iraqi insurgency, and those resulting from excess crime.
Military personnel killed in action in the Iraq War (3 C, 5 P) P. ... Pages in category "Iraq War casualties" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 ...
Hampton died when the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter she was flying was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq on January 2, 2004. Captain Hampton was the first female military pilot in United States history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire. [5] [6] [7] She was also the first female combat casualty in Iraq from South Carolina.
Lisa Jaster is a United States Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and engineer officer who was the first female reserve soldier to graduate from the Army's Ranger School. [2] She completed the training, which as many as 60 percent [3] of students fail within the first four days, after "recycling" through, or retrying, several phases of the multi-locational course.
Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) [2] is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, [3] a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, [3] Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
As of Wednesday, 143 women have graduated from the US Army Ranger Course, also called Ranger School, since the first women graduated in 2015, the Army told CNN.
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.