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Jessica Ann Ellis
1983–2008
Corporal (posthumous promotion; served as combat medic)
Combat medic, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); route-clearance patrols, Baghdad
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named in VA #VeteranOfTheDay as posthumously awarded with Bronze Star after promotion to corporal.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay account. Do not invent a Combat “V” without a matching official device list.
Public sources
Jessica Ann Ellis’s Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile. The VA article states that she was posthumously promoted to corporal and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after an explosively formed penetrator ambush killed her on a night patrol in Baghdad on May 11, 2008. This decorations page records those two awards from that account. It will not invent a Silver Star the VA list does not name.
She trained as a combat medic and rode route-clearance patrols with combat engineers of the 101st Airborne, usually in a Buffalo mine-protected vehicle. She had survived earlier IED strikes and, on the night she died, had volunteered to cover for another medic so the convoy would not go without one. That unit history is public fact. It is not printed here as a third medal.
She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. She is not yet on a war-roll essay. Lakeview, Oregon, and a father’s recollection that she was the morale of the unit are community memory — not U.S. decorations.
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