May 28th, 2009
The Lioness Program, established in 2004, stations female troops with Marine combat units. The Lioness members therefore play a vital role in security and the fight against terrorism, by searching females and children, since Muslim cultural tradition dictates that men are not permitted to look up nor touch females.
Mar 23rd, 2009
Lioness tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct ground combat. Without the same training as their male counterparts but with a commitment to serve as needed, these young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans. Lioness makes public, for the first time, their hidden history.
Jan 8th, 2009
The SoI have been in battle and have suffered because of it. In 2008, LTC Kulmayer reports about 500 were killed and about 750 wounded. Pay varies for the SoI, with those in Baghdad being paid $300 a month and those in al Anbar $130 monthly.
Oct 8th, 2008
Not everyone who dies in our fight against terror is a man. Here is the story of a woman, a Marine, who died in the service of her country. God bless Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell.
May 2nd, 2008
I went to Al Asad for Lioness training with Regimental Combat Team 5. I’m a combat correspondent without any combat experience. Although I’m now a journalist for the Marine Corps, I have always been a journal-keeper of some sort.
Jan 17th, 2008
Returning Jan. 5 from a month of serving alongside the 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment as a part of the Lioness program, three female Seabees attached with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 were able to finally take a moment to reflect upon what they had just accomplished and experienced.
Aug 9th, 2007
Photos: Lance Cpl. Ashley Ramirez and Cpl. Jessica L. Echerd, of the Regimental Combat Team-2 (RCT-2) Lioness Program checks the passports of Iraqi women coming into the country at the Syrian Border in Waleed, Iraq.
May 18th, 2007
United States Navy
By Yeoman 2nd Class Judith Owen, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 28 Public Affairs
Camp Al Asad, Iraq (NNS) — Three women from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 28 took the Navy in a new direction in the war on terrorism when, on May 3, they returned to Camp Al Asad, Iraq, as the [...]