H. R. 3665 
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two 
An Act 
To designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in San 
Diego, California, as the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center, and to support the designation of a component of such medical center 
in honor of Kathleen Bruyere. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) As of January 2021, of 1,255 health care facilities of 
the Department of Veterans of Affairs, two are named for 
women veterans. 
(2) From 2002 through 2006, Jennifer Madai Moreno was 
an active member of the San Diego High School Junior Reserve 
Officer Training Corps (JROTC), which is a Department of 
the Army Honor Unit with Distinction, the highest rating by 
the Army. She was also chosen to be a member of the San 
Diego Unified School District Brigade Staff. As a high school 
senior, she rose quickly to become the top junior marksman 
in California through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. 
(3) Moreno accepted a JROTC scholarship to the University 
of San Francisco (USF) for Nursing, becoming the first person 
in her family to go to college. While at USF, she was chosen 
for Leadership Development Training. She ultimately achieved 
the highest level of physical fitness in her ROTC unit. 
(4) Following her graduation from USF with a Bachelor 
of Science degree in Nursing in 2010, Moreno received her 
commission in the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant 
Nurse Corps Officer. 
(5) Upon commissioning, Moreno served as a Gold Bar 
Recruiter from July 2010 to September 2010. 
(6) Moreno was chosen to attend and completed the Basic 
Airborne Course in Fort Benning, Georgia and Army Medical 
Department Officer Basic Course at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. 
(7) Moreno was then assigned to Madigan Army Medical 
Center, Joint Base Lewis McCord, Washington in January 2011, 
where she served as a Clinical Staff Nurse on medical-surgical 
unit. Moreno earned her certification as a Medical Surgical 
Registered Nurse in February 2011. 
(8) Moreno volunteered for a position with U.S. Army Spe-
cial Operations Command in 2011. She was selected into the 
SOC Cultural Support Team program. She was deployed to 
Afghanistan in June 2013 with the Army’s 75th Ranger Regi-
ment.
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(9) On October 6, 2013, Moreno was attached to a U.S. 
Army Ranger unit on a night mission in the Zhari district 
in Kandahar province to capture a high-value target when 
four explosive devices were triggered. 
(10) During the last moments of Moreno’s life, she report-
edly heard a call to help a wounded soldier struck by a blast. 
Moreno did not hesitate to respond to the call for help. As 
she made her way to help a fallen soldier, she triggered the 
fifth explosion, which ended her life. 
(11) Moreno was the first Nurse CST member to die in 
action. Part of her legacy is the number of young women 
coming from medical fields seeking out voluntary assignments 
to join the CST program. 
(12) Moreno was the first combat casualty to be buried 
at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego since the 
post-9/11 conflicts began. She received full military honors. 
(13) After graduating from college in 1966, Kathleen Mae 
Bruyere was accepted into U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School, 
after which she was assigned as an on-campus Navy recruiting 
officer in California. 
(14) Bruyere was named to the staff of Rear Admiral Allen 
Hill in 1975, becoming the first woman to serve as flag secretary 
to an admiral. 
(15) In January 1976, Bruyere was chosen as one of 12 
Women of the Year on the cover of Time Magazine. 
(16) In 1977, Bruyere joined five other women officers 
who sued the United States Secretary of the Navy and the 
United States Secretary of Defense over restrictions that pre-
vented women from serving on combat aircraft and ships. This 
led to the 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act being 
struck down as unconstitutional, overturning a ban on women 
serving at sea. 
(17) In 1987, as Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval 
Operations for women’s policy, Bruyere helped conduct an 
examination of the status of Navy women, including career 
opportunities and complaints of sexism. The study led to 9,000 
sea-duty and command jobs opening up for women on 24 
combatant ships. 
(18) In 1991, Bruyere was assigned as Commanding Officer 
for the Navy Recruit Training Command at Orlando, Florida. 
At the time, it was the Navy’s only boot camp that included 
women. Bruyere oversaw the training of 30,000 enlistees, one 
third of them women. 
(19) In 1994, Bruyere retired from the Navy as a Captain 
after 28 years of service. 
(20) From 2012 until shortly before her death in September 
2020, Bruyere was an active volunteer at Miramar National 
Cemetery, devoting almost 4,300 hours to helping visitors locate 
their loved ones’ graves and providing information about vet-
erans’ burial benefits. 
(21) Bruyere was buried at Miramar National Cemetery 
with full military honors. 
(22) In May 2021, a panel of San Diego-area members 
of the Armed Forces, veterans, and military spouses rec-
ommended that the San Diego VA Medical Center be renamed 
in honor of Jennifer Moreno and an internal space be renamed 
in honor of Kathleen Bruyere.
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SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF JENNIFER MORENO DEPARTMENT OF VET-
ERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The medical center of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs in San Diego, California, shall after the date 
of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the 
Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
(b) REFERENCE.—Any reference in any law, regulation, map, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the medical 
center referred to in subsection (a) shall be considered to be a 
reference to the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Center. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DESIGNATION OF MEDICAL CENTER 
PHYSICAL COMPONENT AFTER KATHLEEN MAE BRUYERE. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs should designate a prominent physical space within the 
Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
as designated pursuant to section 2, in honor of Kathleen Mae 
Bruyere. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.