Story by Sgt. Brendan Mackie | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | 06.16.2012
On June 4, just two days before her 25th birthday, she was thousands of miles away from home searching for components of improvised explosive devices in a small cave located just east of the village of Yaro Kalay. Moments later, she heard that two anti-personnel mines were found by the Afghan Border Police in a nearby abandoned house. To the north, further clearance uncovered two directional......
