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Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez (
19 February 1983–
12 September 2006) was the first female minority
Cadet Command Sergeant Major in the history of the
United States Military Academy at
West Point.
Born in
Heidelberg,
West Germany of
African American and
Hispanic parents, she graduated from
Oxon Hill High School, in
Maryland, where she was wing commander of
Junior ROTC. While in high school, working with the District's Peace Baptist Church, Perez helped begin an
HIV-AIDS ministry after family members contracted the virus.
In July 2001, after graduation from high school, Perez attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. There she was an exemplary student and talented track athlete. Following graduation from West Point, she was commissioned a
Second Lieutenant in the
204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division of the
United States Army. Perez deployed to
Iraq in December as a
Medical Service Corps officer. She was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near her
Humvee during combat operations in
Al Kifl, near
Najaf. Aged 23, she was the first female graduate of West Point to die in the
Iraq War, the first West Point graduate of the "
Class of 9/11" to die in combat, and the first female African-American officer to die in combat. Her decorations include the
Purple Heart,
Bronze Star,
Commendation Medal,
National Defense Service Medal,
Army Service Ribbon, the
Overseas Service Ribbon, and the
Combat Action Badge.
Emily Perez was the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or
Afghanistan and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the
September 11,
2001 attacks. Another female West Point graduate,
Laura M. Walker of the Class of 2003, was killed in Afghanistan in 2005.
Perez was interred at the
West Point Cemetery.
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