Remembering Capt. Jennifer Moreno 10 Years Later..
October 6, 2023 marks the 10th year since Madigan Army Medical Center lost its only Soldier in combat in the War on Terror. It was an attack that reportedly wounded 30 Army Rangers and killed a total of four Soldiers. Capt. Jennifer Moreno, a nurse at Madigan, died during the attack embodying a cornerstone of the Army Values and a vital component of the Soldier’s Creed: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.”
On the evening of Oct. 5, 2013, Moreno and the other Soldiers of the regiment were performing a raid on an enemy bomb-making compound in the Zhari District of Afghanistan. It was there that a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device. Following the explosion, other enemy insurgents activated more improvised explosives in what has widely been called a “deadly day” in the war on terror.