Someone You Should Know

Staff Sergeant Carletta Davis, Combat Medic.

Davis was worried about returning to Iraq and made sure to spend more time with her family, including her husband and three sons before her most recent deployment.

“I think she was concerned particularly for her children,” [her mother] said. “She knew the danger of going back a third time.”

Yet she went. She died in Tal Al-Dahab, a few miles from here, on 5 November, 2007, along with four other soldiers when an IED detonated near their Humvee. They were enroute to set up a combat aid station.
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AFSister has a post you should read -- about the Band of Sisters serving their country. Performing their duty, often at hazard, often unrecognized.

There is another Band of Sisters who performed their duties, faced the hazard and, in our sorrow, we search for ways to recognize their sacrifice and honor their memories.

SSG Carletta Davis will be remembered.

Our hospital, staffed and run by the 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, is undergoing renovations. Part of that was to be an upgrade to the combat clinic, the ER for casualties coming in by medevac.

Instead of upgrading the existing clinic, they built a new one.

The paint was still wet when I took that picture...