2nd Lt. Emily J.T. Perez, U.S. Army 1983 – 2006It was written of Lt. Perez in 2006: An academically driven, athletically gifted and deeply religious Medical Service Corps officer from Fort Washington was killed Sept. 12 when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee in Kifl, Iraq.Army 2nd Lt. Emily J.T. Perez, 23, a member of the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, followed in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, both of whom served in the Army, when she was deployed to Iraq in December 2005.“Emily Perez had a spirit akin to what we...
