Leigh Ann Hester is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
Hester visiting the U.S. Army Women's Museum at Fort Gregg-Adams (then called Fort Lee) in February 2007.
Hester waiting to receive her Silver Star medal during a military awards ceremony at Camp Liberty, Iraq in June 2005.
Hester after receiving her Silver Star medal during a military awards ceremony at Camp Liberty, Iraq in June 2005.
Military Police Corps (United States)
The United States Army Military Police Corps (USAMPC) is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the United States Army. Investigations are conducted by Military Police Investigators under the Provost Marshal General's Office or Special Agents of the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID).
Army Reserve Sgt. Toni Ann Valdner with military police patrol car
The officer in charge is inspecting the arms of the Zouaves, who are about to dispatch on a provost-guard duty.
The man standing on the left side of this picture, which was taken in post-WWII Germany, is a West German policeman (at a time when West Germany's police force was just officially created), while the other, standing on the right side, is a Lithuanian-German member of the US Army Military Police.
Military police from the 18th Military Police Brigade deploying to Iraq.
