Jamie from Cokato, MN had been visiting a doctor for a hand injury she had suffered weeks earlier in an automobile accident and was shopping in Kabul when a suicide bomber set off the grenades strapped to his body. Jamie had served in Afghanistan for nine months during 2003 with her Army Reserve unit. When her active duty there ended, she remained in the region by going to work under a U.S. military contract held by WorldWide Language Resources, a company based in Andover, Maine, as a Russian-language interpreter with an office in Uzbekistan. Jamie had learned Russian during a year of intensive Army Reserve language training in Monterey, Calif. Jamie was due to come home in about two months. She was a graduate of Cokato High School in 1998 and attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, for a year. After college, she received law enforcement training and worked for the Police Department in Harker Heights, TX, about 60 miles north of Austin, near Fort Hood. She was training to become a full-fledged patrol officer when she was called for active duty in the Reserve. She even became a skydiver. She is survived by her mother, step-father, brother, stepsister, grandparents. She was 23.
Jamie from Cokato, MN had been visiting a doctor for a hand injury she had suffered weeks earlier in an automobile accident and was shopping in Kabul when a suicide bomber set off the grenades strapped to his body. Jamie had served in Afghanistan for nine months during 2003 with her Army Reserve unit. When her active duty there ended, she remained in the region by going to work under a U.S. military contract held by WorldWide Language Resources, a company based in Andover, Maine, as a Russian-language interpreter with an office in Uzbekistan. Jamie had learned Russian during a year of intensive Army Reserve language training in Monterey, Calif. Jamie was due to come home in about two months. She was a graduate of Cokato High School in 1998 and attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, for a year. After college, she received law enforcement training and worked for the Police Department in Harker Heights, TX, about 60 miles north of Austin, near Fort Hood. She was training to become a full-fledged patrol officer when she was called for active duty in the Reserve. She even became a skydiver. She is survived by her mother, step-father, brother, stepsister, grandparents. She was 23.
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