Capt. Jennifer Moreno, a San Diego native, was killed in 2013 in Afghanistan while coming to the aid of fellow soldiers injured in an explosives attack
The San Diego Veterans Affairs medical center was renamed this week in honor of Capt. Jennifer Moreno, a San Diego native who was killed in 2013 in Afghanistan.
During the raid, an Afghan woman wearing explosives detonated herself, triggering other improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, around the compound, injuring several soldiers. Moreno rushed to help one of them, triggering yet another IED. Moreno and three fellow soldiers were killed in the attack.She was 25 years old when she died.
She was commissioned in the Army after graduation and, while stationed at a base in Washington state, she volunteered for a program that embedded female soldiers with Special Operations units to help soldiers on the front lines deal with women in Afghanistan, whose interactions with men could be seen as inappropriate in their culture.
“Part of her legacy is the number of young women coming from medical fields, seeking out voluntary assignments to join the CST program,” the report said. “At virtually all memorials in her honor, a Ranger badge is present as a reminder of how deeply respected she was by her U.S. Army Ranger teammates.”
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