Jessica Lynch, the Iraq war veteran, spoke at the Friends of Fisher House Conference on Thursday, July 9.

 

On March 23, 2003, she was serving as a unit supply specialist with the 507th Maintenance Company when her convoy was ambushed by Iraqi troops during the Battle of Nasiriyah; Lynch was seriously injured during the offensive and captured by Iraqi soldiers. Her subsequent rescue by U.S. Special Operations Forces in April 2003, was the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first ever of a woman.