Heroic JBLM nurse ran 'into hell' on fatal mission to booby-trapped compound

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/04/29/3170731/heroic-nurse-ran-into-hell.html?sp=/99/296/331/354/



Documents show how Madigan captain, other soldiers lost their lives in a bomb-strewn trap in Afghanistan

Heroic JBLM nurse ran 'into hell' on fatal mission to booby-trapped compound
By ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
April 29, 2014

In her last moments of life, Army nurse Capt. Jennifer Moreno heard two orders.

One was a call to help a wounded soldier struck by a blast in a booby-trapped killing field at an Afghanistan bomb-making compound.

The other was a command to stay put lest she strike another mine in the bomb belt.

The nurse from Madigan Army Medical Center chose to help the wounded soldier, and gave her life trying.

[GeorgeGist]

1. What a waste.

[TwilightGardener]

2. What a brave woman. Selfless, too.

[jollyreaper2112]

3. she looks awful young to be a captain

And other sources list her as a 1st LT.

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140429/NEWS/304290068/The-last-moments-Jennifer-Moreno-an-Army-nurse-killed-Afghanistan

The caption calls her "U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jennifer M. Moreno" and the article calls her a captain. Go figure.

Just another obscenity in a series of needless wars.

[TwilightGardener]

4. She may have had a line number for captain--in other words, her promotion

to captain was approved, but she wasn't allowed to wear the rank yet.