Now that's what a hero looks like. On 11/12/06, Gruss wrote: > > Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester fought her way through an enemy ambush south of > Baghdad, killing three insurgents with her M-4 rifle to save fellow > soldiers' lives -- and yesterday became the first woman since World > War II to win the Silver Star medal for valor in combat. > > The 23-year-old retail store manager from Bowling Green, Ky., won the > award for skillfully leading her team of military police soldiers in a > counterattack after about 50 insurgents ambushed a supply convoy they > were guarding near Salman Pak on March 20. > > After insurgents hit the convoy with a barrage of fire from machine > guns, AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Hester > "maneuvered her team through the kill zone into a flanking position > where she assaulted a trench line with grenades and M203 rounds," > according to the Army citation accompanying the Silver Star. > > "She then cleared two trenches with her squad leader where she engaged > and eliminated three AIF [anti-Iraqi forces] with her M4 rifle. Her > actions saved the lives of numerous convoy members," the citation > stated. > > Hester, a varsity softball and basketball player in high school, > joined the Army in 2001 and was assigned to the Kentucky National > Guard's 617th Military Police Company, based in Richmond, Ky. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester > > Six other soldiers with Hester's unit won awards for defeating the > ambush, leaving 27 insurgents dead, six wounded and one captured. They > include Hester's squad leader, Staff. Sgt. Timothy F. Nein, who also > won the Silver Star. >
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