Frontline female soldiers Nicole Gee and Johanny Rosario were killed in the explosion in Kabul

A few days before her death, Sergeant. Nicole Gee posted a photo of her Instagram The page shows that she is holding a baby at Kabul Airport.

“I love my job,” she captioned the photo.

Gee, 23 years old, 25 years old.Johanny Rosario Pichardo is the only woman in the 13 U.S. military Killed in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul Airport On Thursday, this also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans.

The Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred after a large-scale evacuation TalibanTake over Afghanistan.

Ministry of Defense Saturday Officially identify the killed U.S. soldier, Has caused a lot of tributes.

Sergeant Rosario from Lawrence, Massachusetts, served in the Naval Amphibious Force, the 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade Task Force, and was commended in May for her job as a supply director. Her work is usually People who have been awarded a higher rank.

“Johnny will be brought back to Lawrence as a hero,” Lawrence Mayor Kendricks Vasquez said at a press conference on Saturday. He said that she “did everything to provide shelter for those in need”.

“Her name will never be forgotten in this city and the entire country-I promise,” added Jamie Melendez, director of Lawrence’s Veterans Service.

The Dominican Republic, where she was born, also mourned her. Sonia Guzmán, the ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States, tweeted: “We are with his family and friends and the pain of the entire Dominican Lawrence community.” “May your soul rest in peace!”

Gee is from Sacramento, California, and is a maintenance technician for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Team in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Her last post on Instagram showed that she was standing near the long queue waiting to board the military aircraft at Kabul Airport. “Escort the evacuees to board the bird,” she wrote in the caption.

General Forrest C. Poole III, the commander-in-chief of the Brig’s 2nd Maritime Logistics Group, said his troops “mourn for the great loss of Sergeant Gee.”

Her roommate, sergeant.Mallory Harrison made a tribute Facebook, Describing how much Gee’s death hit her.

Harrison wrote: “When I force myself to return to reality and think that I will never see her again, I can’t fully describe how I feel.” “At the Hong Kong International Airport in Afghanistan, she is doing what she likes to do. The last breath of -helping people-. Then there was an explosion. Just like that, she left.”

She continued: “My best friend. 23 years old. Gone. I feel very peaceful knowing that she left this world to do what she likes. She is a Marine in the Marine Corps. She cares about people. She Love is deep. She is a lamp world in the dark. She is my person.”

The deaths of Gee and Rosario highlight the unique role of female soldiers in America’s longest war.

Only in recent years have women been banned from formally engaging in combat work.

When the Afghan War began in 2011, the female Marines were not assigned to the gate. The returning Marine Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano told New York Times. However, decades of war in conservative Muslim countries forced American armies To adapt.

Female soldiers tend to voluntarily join teams that focus on gathering intelligence from women and searching for them when patrolling, according to Washington post, Due to cultural and religious sensitivities, Afghan men cannot complete the work.

According to the Washington Post, Gee and Rosario were assigned to search for newly arrived Afghan women and children.

First Lieutenant Jack Coppola, spokesman for the Marine Corps, said that Rosario voluntarily joined the women’s participation team in her unit, “we were checking women and children at the gate of the monastery when the attack occurred.”

The Marine Corps has been contacted for more comment.