Genesee Community College Student Veterans of America - SVA

12/06/2019

11/30/2019

Meet the first woman in the U.S. Army to earn a Silver Star for combat valor: Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester.

Ambushed by enemy forces in Salman Pak, eastern Iraq, on March 20, 2005. With enemy fire peppering the convoy, the 23-year-old sergeant directed her gunner to send MK19 rounds downrange into a ditch containing more than a dozen heavily armed insurgents.

Hester then dismounted her vehicle, lobbing rounds from her M203 gr***de launcher and tossing two fragmentation gr***des into the trench line before storming the area on foot.

Joined by her squad leader, Sgt. Hester quickly cut through two additional trenches, personally killing three enemies to her front in close-quarters combat with her M4.

With the irrigation ditches cleared, a cease fire was called. Forty-five minutes of sheer pandemonium had transpired.

Twenty-seven insurgents lay dead, six wounded, and one captured.

Every member of Hester’s unit survived.

This excerpt was extracted from Militarytimes.com
Read the full article here: https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/06/14/this-sergeant-became-the-first-woman-in-the-us-army-to-earn-a-silver-star-for-combat-valor/

11/30/2019

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11/29/2019

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11/28/2019

Colorado Springs native Caroline Johnson will hold book signings for her recent memoir, "Jet Girl." The book details her time spent in the U.S. Navy as a weapons systems officer

11/24/2019

One of the high school students who helped take down and disarm a gunman during a school shooting earlier this year graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Training on Sept. 20.

11/21/2019

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