Sgt Johanny R Pichardo - USMC
Sgt Johanny R Pichardo - USMC
After her graduation, in 2014, Lawrence, MA native, Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo enlisted in the Marines, serving with the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. Pichardo was assigned to assist in the Afghanistan evacuation efforts.
Pichardo lost her life assisting two Afghan women who were being trampled by the pack of people outside the airport gates, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt.
Sgt. Rosario Pichardo, 25, was killed, along with 12 other American service members, and 169 Afghan civilians in the initial blast and the gunfire that followed. Pichardo’s commanding officer, Capt. Pascal DeMeo, remembers Pichardo’s final words before she attempted to help the women on the ground- “They need me, sir.”
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