Emily Perez
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Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez | |
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204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade | |
Battles/wars | Iraq War |
Awards | Bronze Star Purple Heart National Defense Service Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal |
Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez (19 February 1983 – 12 September 2006) was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army serving in Iraq. She was the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq.[1]
Early life and education
Born in
Career and death
Following graduation from West Point in 2005, she was commissioned a
Perez was deployed to Iraq in December as a Medical Service Corps officer. She was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near her Humvee during combat operations in Al Kifl, near Najaf.
Lieutenant Perez's military awards include the
Emily Perez was the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
She was the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq.[1]
Perez was buried at the West Point Cemetery.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "West Point Mourns a Font of Energy, Laid to Rest by War". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
External links
- Partlow, Joshua and Lonnae O'Neal Parker, "West Point Mourns a Font Of Energy, Laid to Rest by War", The Washington Post, 27 September 2006
- Faces of the Fallen: 2nd Lt. Emily J. Perez, The Washington Post
- West Point Graduate Is First of 'Class of 9/11' to Die in Combat, Reuters via Los Angeles Times, 27 September 2006
- Death Comes Calling For the Class of 9/11, Time, 1 October 2006
- Memorial program (PowerPoint), medicalservicecorps.amedd.army.mil]