Leigh Ann Hester

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Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq. Hester is the first woman in the Army to receive the Silver Star since World War II and the first ever woman in the Army to receive it for valor in combat.

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