Ī video of some of the American prisoners of war, including Piestewa, was later shown around the world on Al Jazeera television. Lynch's best friend, Lori Piestewa, received a serious head wound and died in an Iraqi civilian hospital. Five other soldiers were captured and subsequently rescued 21 days later. Eleven other soldiers in the company were killed in the ambush. She was initially listed as missing in action. Lynch, then a supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company from Fort Bliss, Texas, was wounded and captured by Iraqi forces. The Humvee in which Lynch was riding was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer. The convoy came under attack by enemy fire. Apparently, the convoy took more than one wrong turn.
Maps of the area lack the detail required to properly navigate through tight city streets. Although some vehicles had GPS receivers, military GPS systems, unlike civilian equivalents, provide only grid references and not turn-by-turn navigation. The ambush was unlikely to have been set up in advance, because the Iraqis did not know which course the convoy would take. The convoy was supposed to detour around the town but instead turned directly into it, eventually running into an ambush. On March 23, 2003, a convoy of the United States Army's 507th Maintenance Company and the 3rd Combat Support Battalion elements, led by a Humvee driven by Lori Piestewa, made a wrong turn and were ambushed near Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates northwest of Basra. She later completed Advanced Individual Training for her Military Occupational Specialty as a unit supply specialist (MOS 92Y) in the Quartermaster Corps at Fort Lee, Virginia. "He did not lie to the kids," her mother said, "he said there was always the possibility of war in the future." "But at that time it was before September 11, and there was no terrorism," Lynch recalls, "so we were like, 'that would never happen to me.' " On September 19, 2001, Lynch entered basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Searching for a way to pay for the children's educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter in the summer of 2000 when Lynch was seventeen and still attending high school. Her family could not afford to send her to college her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons as well. Lynch was born in Palestine, West Virginia, the second child and first daughter to Deidre Lynch and Gregory Lynch, Sr. Her role was loosely based on her own experiences during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In 2014, Lynch made her acting debut as specialist Summer L. I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. When asked about her heroine status, she stated: "That wasn't me. Lynch has been outspoken in her criticism of the original stories that were reported regarding her combat experience. On April 24, 2007, she testified in front of United States Congress that she had never fired her weapon (her M16 rifle reportedly having jammed), and that she had been knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed during the ambush. Initial official reports on Lynch's capture and rescue in Iraq were incorrect. special operations forces on April 1, 2003, received considerable media coverage as it was the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first ever of a woman. 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 shortly afterwards.
Jessica Dawn Lynch is an American teacher, actress, and former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a private first class. Lynch at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C.
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