Jaime Jaenke

Died: June 5, 2006

Rank: Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class

Unit: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, U.S. Navy Reserve

Branch: U.S. Navy

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Jaime S. Jaenke, a Navy Reservist assigned to Naval Mo­bile Construction Battalion 25 (NMCB 25) out of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, lost her life on June 5, 2006, while serving her country in Anbar Province, Iraq, when the Hum­vee she was riding in was struck by an improvised explosive device. The 29-year-old Seabee—the third Navy female to die in Iraq—had been serving as a paramedic in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom for less than three months. Her funeral services were held June 14, 2006, at the First United Methodist Church in Iowa Falls, Iowa, after which she was laid to rest in Alden Cemetery in Alden, Iowa.