Lieut Florence Bacong Choe
November 26, 1973 in San Diego, CA
Died March 27, 2009 in Afghanistan
Lt. Florence B. Choe, of El Cajon, California. She attended Spring Valley’s Loma Elementary School and Monte Vista High School, earned an associate’s degree from Cuyamaca Community College in 1994, earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of San Diego in 1997, and a master’s degree in public health and health care administration in 2001 from San Diego State University. Florence was commissioned as a Medical Service Corps member in the Navy on February 21, 2002. She was serving as a medical administration and logistics mentor to the Afghan National Army. Her home duty station was the Naval Medical Center San Diego, where she was born. She had volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. She died March 27 when an insurgent posing as an Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on personnel assigned to Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen, Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan. She is survived by her husband, Lt. Cmdr. Chong “Jay” Choe, a urology resident at the medical center and their daughter, Kristin, age 3.
She was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.
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