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Women at War - Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts (Paperback)
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Women at War - Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 800
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Today, women in all U.S. military services are involved in the war
in Iraq and Afghanistan. They serve as pilots and crewmen of
assault helicopters, bombers, fighters, and transport planes and
are frequently engaged in firefights with enemy insurgents while
guarding convoys. They perform pat down searches of Arab women at
checkpoints, carry out military police duties, and serve aboard
Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ships at sea. Like their male
counterparts, they carry out their missions with determination and
great courage. The advent of the insurgency war, which has no rear
or front lines, has made the debate regarding women in combat
irrelevant. In such a war zone anyone can be killed or injured at
any moment. The stories of these thirty courageous women are told
here by James E. Wise, a former naval aviator and Vietnam veteran,
and Scott Baron, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and former
law enforcement officer in California, through numerous personal
interviews and oral history interviews conducted by staff at The
Women’s Memorial, located in Arlington, Virginia. In every case
they were struck by the women’s extraordinary display of
dedication to their mission and to the soldiers and sailors with
whom they served. While the book’s focus is on today’s women in
combat, it also reaches back to Korea, Vietnam and World War II to
offer selected stories of inspiring women who served at the"cusp of
the spear" as they fought and died for their country.
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