Hi Eric (& LR Readers)!

Just a quick note to say I am alive and well and in the middle of things here in Kandahar Province!

Keep up the fire back home!

v/r Katherine

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Capt. Katherine Jenerette Receives Combat Spurs Award in Afghanistan?

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - Capt. Katherine Jenerette, who has been serving with the 5th Squadron 1st Cavalry Regiment Task Force Blackhawk since June 2011 was inducted into the 'Order of the Combat Spur' by Lt. Col. David Raugh, Commander of the 5-1 CAV and CSM McFarlan, Command Sergeant Major in a ceremony on September 5, 2011. The Order of the Combat Spur is an Army tradition reserved for Cavalry members who have earned the right to wear 'Golden Spurs' for service during combat operations and have conducted combat patrols or missions outside the Forward Operating Base during their deployment. Capt. Jenerette, of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been serving in Kandahar Province since March 2011 on numerous missions ‘outside the wire’ and recently took part in a Air Assault Operation in northern Shah Wali Kot's Baghtu Valley(see photo).

Editor's note - Katherine was a candidate for US Congress in 2010. Tim Scott, her friend and Tea Party colleague, beat her in the primary. Katherine immediately endorsed Rep. Scott.