Was born in Neiva, Huila, Colombia. His mother, Marcela Pardo, a physical therapist, named him after the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He rarely saw his father, a pediatric neurologist, after his parents separated when he was 2.
He planned to be a doctor, like his father and grandfather.
He attended Charles West. Flanagan High School, graduating in 2004. Unable to afford to go to college, returned to Colombia, where he studied classical violin at the Luis A. Calvo Academy, District University of Bogotá. In February 2006, attended basic training at Fort Sill (Bravo Battery 1st Battalion 79th Field Artillery Regiment), where he received the high APFT score.
Juan Sebastián "Doc" (October 7, 1984 – July 22, 2007) was a Colombian American soldier and medic. was killed in Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, of neck wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire. He was immortalized in the Academy Award-nominated documentary,
He had an older brother Ivan, and a younger brother, Pablo. Two years later they moved to Pembroke Pines.
Juan was very active in sports, boxing, playing soccer and skateboarding.
After getting a girl pregnant, he returned to the United States and enlisted in the military. In May of 2006, he attended advanced individual training at Fort Sam Houston (Bravo/Charlie Company, 232nd Medical Battalion) before attending airborne school at Fort Benning.
He went to Italy and Germany, where he did specialized medical training, before being deployed to the Korengal Valley in May 2007. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
A few months after he arrived, "s patrol was ambushed in the village of Aliabad.
He lifted his head to see if anyone was injured, and took two bullets to the face and neck. He stayed semi-conscious, trying to instruct his fellow soldiers what to do for him. He was stable when he boarded the medevac helicopter, but bled out before arriving at the hospital.
He was buried in Colombia.
His life and death, and the lives of his fellow soldiers as they carry on at OP, are chronicled in the award-winning documentary, by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, and its sequel, Korengal. The first documentary begins on a train in Italy with an enthusiastic excited to go to Afghanistan.
He dies shortly after the documentary begins. "s death hit his fellow soldiers hard.
He was highly respected "because he was brave under fire and absolutely committed to the mentor
If you got sick he"d take your guard shift. If you were depressed he"d come to your hooch and play guitar. He took care of his men in every possible way," Junger wrote.
Two months after his death, his platoon built a new combat outpost near where he had died and named it OP OP housed anywhere from 15 to 20 soldiers at a time during its two years of existence.
lieutenant had no running water or electricity, but was essentially a shantytown constructed from tarp and plywood, and protected by giant bags of rocks. "When the boys built that base, the Taliban or the American Advertising Federation forces in the valley, they were completely in shock.
lieutenant was like a middle finger sticking out. And they realized once they could not knock off OP, we had the upper hand.
They started becoming afraid," Captain
Dan Kearney says in.
