6/30 Friday - Honor 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 honor our Nation's Heroines with Jenny. 
Jenny, the second ever CrossFit female Hero WOD, is in honor of U.S. Army Capt. Jennifer M. Moreno, of San Diego, California. She commissioned in the U.S. Army as a nurse corps officer after graduating from the University of San Francisco with a nursing degree.
She served with the Madigan Army Medical Center medical center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, as a clinical staff nurse on a medical surgical unit. After completing Army airborne training in 2009, she volunteered for a position with U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
Moreno served with a joint special operations task force as a cultural support team member, the only combat role at that time for female soldiers. She was just three months into her first deployment with the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, on a mission in the Zhari district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, when she died Oct. 6, 2013, after an improvised explosive device blast.  The multiple IED explosions that killed Moreno also took the life of two Rangers, an Army MP and wounded 25 others.
She was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor for rushing into a building amidst the explosions to render aid to a wounded Ranger when she was killed.
In addition to a Bronze Star Medal, Moreno posthumously promoted to captain. She also received a Combat Action Badge, a Meritorious Service Medal, a Purple Heart, an Afghanistan Campaign Medal and a NATO Medal.
She is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California, Section W, Site 974.
Rest in peace, Ma'am. I've got the watch. ​

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