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This year marks ten year since Capt. Jennifer Moreno, a nurse at Madigan Army Medical Center, died during an attack that wounded 30 Army Rangers and killed a total of four Soldiers. 

Moreno was commissioned as a nurse into the Army and volunteered to deploy for the first time with joint special operations task force as a Cultural Support Team member. 

On the evening of Oct. 5, 2013, Moreno and the other Soldiers of the regiment were performing a raid on an enemy bomb-making compound in the Zhari District of Afghanistan. It was there that a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device. Following the explosion, other enemy insurgents activated more improvised explosives.

Moreno went to the aid of another Soldier wounded in the attack and while attending to a fellow soldier, she stepped on a concealed landmine and was killed.

She was posthumously promoted to captain and awarded the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Purple Heart, Afghanistan Campaign Medal and NATO Medal.

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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

Thank you, Jennifer, for your bravery and sacrifice.

On March 14, 2022, President Biden signed a bill to change the name of a VA medical center in San Diego to the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in her honor. Moreno was an #Army nurse killed during a Oct. 6, 2013, special operations raid in Afghanistan.

One of the kindest souls. She cared for all.

JENNIFER MADAI MORENO

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