Specialist Cassandra Miles is a combat medic currently serving in Afghanistan with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. She recently returned to duty after suffering injuries from an IED blast, her second time being wounded. SPC Miles is on her third combat tour.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - A Soldier serving her third combat deployment returned to Afghanistan Nov. 12 from undergoing medical treatment in Germany after suffering her second injury from two Improvised Explosive Device detonations.
New Brunswick, N.J., native Spc. Cassandra L. Miles volunteered to return after suffering a mild concussion and possible Mild Traumatic Brain Injury as a result of the IED attack she survived on Oct. 28 and another attack earlier this year when she suffered minor headaches and burns.
Serving as a medic attached to Company D, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, an IED exploded near her Humvee door during a patrol in Logar Province.
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