Soldier of Fortune "We knew he was suffering but no one expected this"

Sister blames SA soldier's suicide on PTSD
Jayme Pohovey remembered as a hero, 'a soldier’s soldier'
KSAT
By Paul Venema
Reporter
September 16, 2014

SAN ANTONIO - The sister of Army Spc. Jayme Pohovey said his family was devastated upon learning that Pohovey had taken his own life Monday morning.

"We knew he was suffering but no one expected this," Jessica Baker said as she talked about her older brother’s death.

Pohovey was stationed at San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he worked as an emergency room medic.

Baker said her brother had served several tours in Afghanistan and was a decorated hero who was once featured on the cover of Soldier of Fortune magazine for acts of heroism while serving in Afghanistan.
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‘Hero’ receives welcome home
IndeOnline
By Matthew Rink
Posted Aug. 8, 2008
AKRON

Spc. Jayme Pohovey hugged mom and dad, grandma and grandpa.
The soft-spoken soldier looked over the group that turned out to welcome him home.
“Everyone’s here,” he said.

Glenn B. Dettman
Army Spc. Jayme Pohovey, center, is greeted by his grandmother Dorothy Pohovey, left, as his wife Svetlana holds daughter Selene Thursday evening at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport. Pohovey has spent all but 30 days in the past 3 1/2 years overseas.

Pohovey’s work that day would later earn him a nickname: the Soldier of Fortune.

“It was surprising when I found out,” he said, noting that fellow soldiers were expected to grace the cover. “I got ragged on the whole time. They kept calling me ‘Soldier of Fortune.’”

“We were just out on a normal patrol with the Afghan National Army in the lead,” he recalled Thursday.

“We were going to give the national blankets and all kinds of things.”

But the Army officers were ambushed, facing heavy fire from the Taliban.

“We heard there were casualties and they were still shooting at us,” he said.

From his Humvee, Pohovey could see an ANA truck in flames with the commander lying on the ground behind it.

“He was pretty heavily injured,” Pohovey said.

The medic pulled out his aid kit and radioed for a helicopter, reassuring the bloodied ANA commander he would be OK, the Army reported.

“The training took over,” he said. “I didn’t even think about it until the next day. I got him a a helicopter and he survived.”
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