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Digital photograph of Sgt Chantelle Taylor (second from the right), Royal Army Medical Corps, Afghanistan 1998-2008. Associated with Operation HERRICK, Afghanistan (2001- ). Chantelle Taylor served as a combat medic in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2008. During her 2006 tour, she was attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade and worked at the Base Hospital at Camp Bastion. During her 2008 tour, she was based in La shkar Gah, went on patrols and was then based in a Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Nad-e Ali. In her second tour (2008) she was involved in hearts and minds operations, fighting out of Patrol Base Argyll with the Afghan National Army (ANA), and when her convoy was ambushed near Marjah in July 2008, Taylor returned fire, and became the first female soldier to have killed an enemy combatant.

HERRICK, Operation, 2002-14 (Afghanistan 2001-2021)