Specialist Christine Lynn Mayes, A Soldier's Story
Specialist Christine Lynn Mayes, A Soldier's Story
Specialist Christine Lynn Mayes was born on April 28, 1968, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her family later relocated to Indiana, Pennsylvania, where she attended Marion Center Area High School and graduated in 1986.
In 1987, she enlisted in the United States Army, completing a three-year active-duty enlistment while stationed in Germany. Trained as a food service worker, Specialist Mayes served in a role that sustained daily operations and troop readiness, work that was routine, essential, and often invisible. After completing her active contract, she continued her service in the Army Reserve.
While pursuing a degree in business, her reserve unit was activated and deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War. She served with the 14th Quartermaster unit, providing logistical and sustainment support during a rapidly moving conflict.
On February 25, 1991, a SCUD missile strike hit the barracks where Specialist Christine Mayes was quartered, killing her in the attack. She was twenty-two years old.
Specialist Christine Lynn Mayes is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Rochester Mills, Pennsylvania. Her service is remembered as part of the quiet backbone of military operations, those whose work made everything else possible and whose sacrifice deserves to be recorded with care.
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