Love in combat zone

A deployed love affair
DVIDS
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs
Story by Sgt. Marcus Fichtl
February 14, 2014

CAMP BEUHRING, KUWAIT – It’s a love story like any other, boy meets girl, they fall in love, they grow old together in a combat zone.

Spc. Alexandria Perez, a health care specialist, and Sgt. Eduardo Perez, a behavioral health specialist, met six years ago at “Charlie Med,” Company C of the 204th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, two privates as new to each other as they were to the Army.

One from Los Angeles the other from Laredo, Texas, one a lover of Tejano music the other joining the Army straight out of fashion school, culturally, two people as different as you could find anywhere. But in the Army, both hundreds a miles from home, they found a family in their unit and with each other.

“We connected on paper,” said Alexandria. We didn’t have much in common, but both coming from big Mexican families we shared values of faith and family.”

And seemingly, Eduardo’s Texan chivalry meshed with Alexandria’s Californian openness.

“He was always saving me and keeping me out of trouble,” said Alexandria. “He would help me with my ruck or always have a spare of whatever I forgot to formation.”

“We grew on each other,” said Eduardo. If I needed to someone to talk to or vent, I went to her, she would understand me.”

A few months into their stay on Fort Carson, they received the word that they were deploying to Iraq.
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