{"id":71821,"date":"2017-05-02T14:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71821"},"modified":"2017-05-02T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:20:32","slug":"the-last-moments-of-specialist-hilda-claytons-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71821","title":{"rendered":"The last moments of Specialist Hilda Clayton’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News<\/a> reports that Army has released a series of photos which chronicled the last moments of the life of 22-year-old Specialist Hilda Clayton, an Army Public Affairs photographer, when a mortar tube exploded as she was taking pictures of the firing drill. She was killed along with four Afghans on July 2, 2013.<\/p>\n

Since her death, Clayton’s name has since been added to the Defense Information School Hall of Heroes at Fort Meade. The award for the winner of Combat Camera’s annual competition was also named after her<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Clayton was a member of the Army\u2019s storied combat camera unit, the Fort Meade, Md.-based 55th Signal Company, which has deployed soldiers to front lines across the globe.<\/p>\n

She was the first Army combat documentation and production specialist to be killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The unit has named its annual competition the SPC Hilda I. Clayton Best Combat Camera (COMCAM) Competition in her memory.<\/p>\n

Her name is also etched into the Hall of Heroes at the Defense Information School in Fort Meade, where she graduated in 2012.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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