Army Sgt. Breanna Jessop, from Myton, has been named the USO’s Soldier of the Year for leading a makeshift orphanage during the U.S. military’s evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan earlier this year.
Army Sgt. Breanna Jessop, from Myton, was named the USO’s 2021 Soldier of the Year for valorous service in Afghanistan this summer.
As crowds of Afghans outside of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul vied desperately to escape from the Taliban, Jessop managed a chapel at the airport and created an orphanage that, according to the USO, cared for more than 400 unaccompanied child evacuees — some as young as days old. Soldiers created the orphanage as a way to care for the children — a mix of actual orphans and kids that had traveled through the airport’s security without families — and while the military worked to evacuate the unaccompanied minors or reconnect them with families, according to Task & Purpose.
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