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Private Monica Brown is the second woman to be awarded the Silver Star since World War II — and she was just 18 years old (and had only 4 months of medical training) when she risked her own life to save two injured colleagues in Afghanistan after they were ambushed. Are those colleagues grateful? Not really. In fact, one of them thinks she didn't belong there in the first place. More »
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19-year-old Army medic, Spc. Monica Lin Brown, will become the second woman since WWII to earn the silver star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor. Brown was in a convoy of Humvees in Afghanistan last April when a roadside bomb exploded. Five soldiers were wounded in the blast, and Brown shielded her fellow soldiers with her own body as mortars fell less than 100 yards away. "I did not really think about anything except for getting the guys to a safer location and getting them taken care of and getting them out of there," Brown said. [CBS News] More »
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