Spc. Monica Brown grew up in a small town in Texas and joined the Army at age 17, becoming a medic; at age 19 she made headlines as the first woman in Afghanistan-and only the second woman since World War II-to receive the Silver Star. Spc. Brown braved insurgent gunfire to save the lives of soldiers wounded when a roadside bomb struck their Humvee in April 2007. "I just did my job/' she says, "I didn't expect any recognition for it."

It is true that the job of the combat medicMOS 68W health care specialist-is to provide first aid and frontline trauma care and stabilize wounded soldiers until medevac arrives. It is also true that combat medics seem to be so dedicated to that job that they ...

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