Jamal M. Rhett, 24, of Palmyra, N.J., was killed in action Sunday when a grenade attack hit his vehicle.
Rhett was a combat medic who aspired to be a doctor. He enlisted in the Army after one year of college because he wanted help paying for college and medical school, said his aunt, Sonya Winters.
“He wanted to go into the medical field and he found out, looking through everything, that it would be costly to him as far as schooling was concerned. So he decided to join the service,” said Winters.
Winters said Rhett was on his second tour in Iraq, and that he preferred not to share his experiences there with his family.
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“When he first came home, he told us that there were some things that he couldn’t talk to us about and he’d appreciate if we didn’t ask him questions about it,” said Winters. “He did at one point tell us there were some things over there that he’d seen that he never wanted to see in his life.”
