Kimberly Agar was one of those soldiers.

Kimberly Agar was not carrying supplies from a safe distance.

She was driving them through Iraq during a war where convoy routes could become deadly targets without warning.

For 15 months, Sergeant Agar served as a heavy transport driver, moving the fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies that frontline troops depended on.

Every completed convoy meant getting the trucks through hostile territory and bringing them back.

Then one mission ended differently.

Agar’s convoy was ambushed in 2005.

Her truck was hit during the attack, and Agar suffered severe wounds. Despite efforts to save her, she later died from those injuries.

Her death exposed something about modern warfare that is easy to overlook.

A soldier does not have to be carrying a rifle at the front of an assault to be directly exposed to the war.

Supply drivers became targets because an army cannot fight without supplies.

Every gallon of fuel, every case of food and every piece of ammunition had to travel across roads where soldiers knew an ordinary journey could become a combat mission.

Agar made that journey for 15 months.

She kept driving until one ambush stopped her.

Her name is far less familiar than the names of generals, commanders and famous battlefield figures.

But the military depends on people whose jobs rarely make headlines.

Someone has to move what an army needs.

Someone has to take the road everyone knows is dangerous.

Kimberly Agar was one of those soldiers.

She did not make history from a podium.

She did it behind the wheel, mile after mile, carrying what other soldiers needed to stay in the fight.

Then she paid the ultimate price on a road most people would never have been willing to drive.

How many forgotten soldiers like Kimberly Agar deserve to be remembered?  What can you and I do to remember them?

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