[Huntress]

Despite the itinerant life, Brown excelled academically. She graduated from high school a year and a half early -- a day after turning 17. She planned to enroll in college, but that changed when her brother Justin, who was a year older and like a twin, was drawn to the Army.

I see even more great things ahead for this courageous and smart young lady.

[heartwood]

I don’t know what she wants, but if she wants West Point and medical school, let her have it. A very admirable young woman.

[miliantnutcase]

I wonder if you can put “Awarded Silver Star” on your resume?

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

I see even more great things ahead for this courageous and smart young lady.

I do too but apparently they won't be in combat.

"We weren't supposed to take her out" on missions "but we had to because there was no other medic," said Lt. Martin Robbins, a platoon leader with Charlie Troop, 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, whose men Brown saved. "By regulations you're not supposed to," he said, but Brown "was one of the guys, mixing it up, clearing rooms, doing everything that anybody else was doing."

Sounds like the Washington regulations are out of sync with the reality in the field.