Photos: Fort Leonard Wood Dedicates Building To Soldier Killed In Iraq

CREATED Jul. 27, 2012

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  • Family members help unveil a plaque at Fort Leonard Wood in honor of Sgt. Amanda Pinson, Missouri's first female soldier killed in Iraq. Image by Fort Leonard Wood Facebook

A building at Fort Leonard Wood has been dedicated to Missouri's first fallen female soldier in Iraq.

Sgt. Amanda Pinson, from St. Louis, died in 2006 near Tikrit when a mortar went off. Her name lives on at a training center, dedicated on July 26, 2012.

Click here to see photos from the dedication.