Welcome Back From Afghanistan: SPC E4 Lishah Kemble
Event Date
09/08/2012
Event Time3:45 pm - 4:15 pm;
Location
Southampton NJ
218 Eayrestown Rd
Southampton, NJ
Welcome Back From Afghanistan
Southampton, New Jersey
Who: SPC E4 Lishah Kemble
When: Saturday September 8, 2012
Time: 4 PM
Where: 218 Eayrestown Rd
Southampton 08088
Contact:
Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey: George 856 685 3150 or Dave Silver 856 986 7587
Dienna (Mother) 609 556 4354
Please come out to welcome home SPC E4 Lishah Kemble from her deployment in Afghanistan.
- Lishah Lee Kemble born November 2, 1982.
- Has 2 younger siblings; Jessica and Chad.
- Graduated Overbrook Senior High School, Class of 2001.
- Activities: Gymnastics, Cheerleading, Soccer & an active member of Berlin-Baptist-Youth-Group.
- She volunteered for numerous activities such as yearly food-drives, mission trips, helping in “soup-kitchens”, visiting terminal patients in the area hospitals, bringing home-cooked meals & company to our elderly Vets who are ‘shut-ins” and helping to put together “Care-Packages” and letters to our Troops overseas.
- She attended Camden-County-Community-College for a semester and a community College in Florida for a year.
- Lishah & her sister Jessica were taught about firearms and learned how to shoot and handle them by 10 years old.
- Lishah joined the U.S. ARMY and left for basic-training on St.Patrick’s-Day, March 17th, 2009 for Ft. Jackson, South Carolina.
- After graduation, she headed to Ft. Sam-Houston, Texas for her Paramedic-training-school.
- She was then sent to Ft. Polk, L.A. where she earned her Sharp-Shooter-Medal.
- She was deployed for an F.O.B. in Kandahar, Afghanistan for a year where she earned her Combat-Medic-Medal, after the vehicle that she was in during a night patrol took a direct hit from a grenade-launcher at close distance. She got everyone out and not a life was lost!
- Lishah received the only Combat Medic Badge in her unit for performing medical intervention under fire. She also received the Army Commendation Medal
Friends, Family, The Warriors Watch, Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey, The New Jersey State Police, The Southampton Fire Department, Southampton Township and others will be on hand to make some noise and welcome home this Hero in Rock Star style.
*** Media is welcome to attend***
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