6/28 Wednesday - Honoring our Nation's Heroines

We have an Independence Day tradition at our gym. We celebrate our Independence by honoring  women who have died in service to it. We have done this since I opened the gym 9 years ago, and we continue this year. 
Today we start honoring our Nation's Heroines with White. 
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ashley White, 24, of Alliance, OH, assigned to the 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina National Guard, based in Goldsboro, NC, died on October 22, 2011 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked her unit with an improvised explosive device.
Lt White was a member of an US Army Cultural Support Team. Cultural Support Teams were deployed in small detachments with male infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan order to collect information from families and communicate with women without breaking cultural taboos. Women Marines and Soldiers received special combat training in order to be detached to infantry units. These women proved themselves admirably in combat situations and were instrumental in collecting intelligence that was unavailable to their male counterparts. 
If you would like to know more about the women in combat and specifically Lt. White's story, please read Ashley's War. ​
She is survived by her husband Captain Jason Stumpf, her parents Robert and Deborah, brother Josh, and sister Brittney.
“White” was the first CrossFit female Hero WOD, first posted on the CrossFit Main Site as the workout of the day for Tuesday November 8, 2011.
CrossFit’s next female hero WOD, “Jenny,” was first posted in 2014 and you will honor her on Friday. 
Rest in peace, Ma'am. I've got the watch. ​