Posted by
The Conservative Manifesto on Monday, March 10, 2008 2:02:55 PM
From the
Marine Corps Times:
A
19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan
and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver
Star, the nation’s third-highest medal for valor.
Army Spc.
Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside
bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in
April 2007, the military said.
After the explosion, which
wounded five soldiers in her unit, Brown ran through insurgent gunfire
and used her body to shield wounded comrades as mortars fell less than
100 yards away, the military said.