Operation Iraqi Freedom
First Lieutenant, Army
Ashley L. Henderson Huff
Belle Mead
December 19, 1982 – 19 September 2006
● Friend of Kurdistan
● Advocate of Irbil Police Academy
● Died in the Defense of Freedom
Montgomery High School graduate Class of 2000, Ashley Henderson Huff joined the U.S. Army in May 2004, and was deployed to Iraq in December 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She was a platoon leader with the 549th Military Police Company, 385th Military Police Battalion. Huff was killed when a roadside side bomb detonated while she was on patrol on September 19, 2006. She was the first New Jersey woman to be killed in the war. She was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the Combat Action Badge. The road leading in to Montgomery High School was recently re-named Lieutenant Ashley Henderson Huff Memorial Drive, in honor of Ashley’s service to her country. ■
