Frances M. Vega
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Died when: 20 years 61 days (242 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Frances Marie Vega (September 2, 1983 – November 2, 2003) was a United States Army soldier who became the first female Puerto Rican soldier born in the United States to die in a war zone when a ground-to-air missile fired byinsurgents in Fallujah, Iraq hit the Chinook transport helicopter Vega was in.
The post office on Camp Victory North, located in Baghdad, Iraq, was renamed the Frances M.Vega Army Post Office, and the Main Gate at Fort Buchanan Army Base is named the SPC Frances M.
Vega gate in her honor.
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