Monica Lin Brown will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the nation’s third-highest medal for valor.Īfter 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. 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.Īrmy Spc. My thanks go out to our brave Soldiers.ĬAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan (March 9) – 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.Īrmy Spc. She is another excellent example of the backbone of our country.įrom time to time I fret that our youth are seriously lacking in values and strength, then I turn my attention to our men and women in the military and I am reminded that they are indeed our future… And I once again have reason to believe our nation is not as flawed as is painted with lopsided news stories. I am beaming with pride for a local Soldier! Our sincere gratitude for the brave actions of Spc. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here. This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. Humorous, a clown, but he was also very disciplined and very passionate about what he believed in,” Gwendolyn Morin said. “He’s very strong willed, very determined. Morin died when an IED went off, overturning the vehicle he was riding in near Umm Qasr, Iraq. He would hang outside my classes and wait for me with a Diet Coke,” recalled Gwendolyn. “It was funny because we always kept running into each other. Both were attending Texas Tech University. At the time, the two were working for a photo company he was Santa Claus and she was an elf, she said. Morin was still in the Navy when he met his wife. By 34, Morin had devoted 14 years to the Navy, served in the National Guard for two and planned to attend Officers Candidate School. Morin enlisted in the Navy after graduating high school in his hometown of Brownfield, Texas at 17. Sometimes they would go 11 or 12 days between calls. He expected to be able to call her more often because of the missions he was being assigned. “He had called me to let me know what he was going to do that day,” she said. “He always stood up for what he thought was right,” Gwendolyn Michelle Morin, his wife, said. That was scary.111th Engineer Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guardįrom the time he finished high school, Sgt. "Running back to the vehicle, I was nervous (since) I did not know how badly the guys were injured. "I did not really have time to be scared," Brown said. Eventually, they moved the wounded some 500 yards away and treated them on site before putting them on a helicopter for evacuation. "I was in a kind of a robot-mode, did not think about much but getting the guys taken care of."įor Brown, who knew all five wounded soldiers, it became a race to get them all to a safer location. "So we dragged them for 100 or 200 meters, got them away from the Humvee a little bit," she said. She said they were sitting in a dangerous spot.
But the nature of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with no real front lines, has seen women soldiers take part in close-quarters combat more than previous conflicts.įour Army nurses in World War II were the first women to receive the Silver Star, though three nurses serving in World War I were awarded the medal posthumously last year, according to the Army's Web site.īrown, of the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, said ammunition going off inside the burning Humvee was sending shrapnel in all directions. Pentagon policy prohibits women from serving in front-line combat roles - in the infantry, armor or artillery, for example. We tried to move them to a safer location because we were still receiving incoming fire," Brown said. "I assessed the patients to see how bad they were.
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