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Emily Georgette Sfeir | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 39–40) Chicago metropolitan area, Illinois, U.S. |
| Allegiance | United States |
Branch | United States Army |
Rank | Officer |
| Education | United States Military Academy |
Emily Georgette Sfeir is an U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Early life and education
[edit]Emily Georgette Sfeir was born in 1988 in the Chicago metropolitan area to Dr. Jorge Sfeir, a gynecologist/obstetrician and Jenny Eyzaguirre de Sfeir, a housewife, Bolivian immigrants to the United States. She has two brothers and three sisters. Sfeir attended primary school in Wilmette, Illinois, and high school at the American Cooperative School of La Paz in La Paz, Boliva. During her teenager years, she was a Bolivian junior triathlon champion.[citation needed]
Military career
[edit]Sfeir graduated in 2009 from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. While a cadet at West Point, she gave a eulogy for squad leader Andrew Neal Caldwell, who died in a climbing accident on Pike's Peak[1]; Sfeir competed on the cycling and triathlon teams. She has served as an officer in the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.[2][3][4] Three of her siblings and her father are also veterans of armed forces of the United States. As of January 2026, Sfeir is a Major in the United States Army.[citation needed]
Athletic pursuits
[edit]Sfeir competed in the United States Triathlon Association's 25-29 Age-Group National Championships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 10, 2013.[5]
Humanitarian activity
[edit]Sfeir was a participant in Project Task Force Pineapple[6] and Project Argo, which sought to help Afghans who had served with the U.S. Army as battlefield translators escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August to December 2021. She was instrumental in extracting several Afghan translators and their families by giving assistance in obtaining travel permits and raising funds.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Eulogy for Andrew Neal Caldwell". West-Point.org. October 6, 2008.
- ↑ "Academy Graduates: Open Combat Roles to Women" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. September 17, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 1, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2024.
Letter to Secretary Ray Mabus, Office of the Secretary of the Navy, from 60 graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis
- ↑ Sullivan, Pat (September 14, 2007). "Army Triathletes Continue Winning Ways" (PDF). Pointer View. Vol. 64, no. 36. United States Military Academy. p. 13. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
[in September 2007, at the inaugural Annapolis Triathlon] of the 377 women who competed, junior Emily Sfeir was 27th at, 2:29:15
- ↑ Patton, Joshua (October–December 2017). "Developing a Live, Virtual, and Constructive Exercise Scenario to Train the Intelligence Warfighting Function" (PDF). Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Vol. 43, No.4. 43 (4). Fort Huachuca, AZ: 26.
Special thanks ...for contributing to this article: CPT Emily Sfeir ("4th ID G-2 Current Operations")
- ↑ "USAT Age Group National Championships" (PDF). wildcardcycling.org.
- ↑ Mann, Scott. Operation Pineapple Express. Simon & Schuster.
- Living people
- 1988 births
- American female military personnel of the Iraq War
- American female military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- American people of Bolivian descent
- Female United States Army officers
- Military personnel from Chicago
- United States Army personnel of the Iraq War
- United States Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- United States Military Academy alumni