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Our Best: Commander Shanti Sethi
The Chrome web browser is inserting hyphens for some unknown reason. If you know why or how to fix, drop us a comment, PLEASE! Fixed. Plugin issue. Thanks to commenter jg!!! America is truly a wonderful country. Where else would you find a female Navy officer from Reno, Nevada, commanding the destroyer USS Decatur? Did I mention that she is of South Asian origin? Oh, and let us not forget that she is a graduate of … Read entire article »
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Women in the Army – the WACS remembered
While sitting on a stage before her speech, Annabelle Smith pointed out to a female soldier, sitting with her legs crossed, ankle on knee, that she would have received demerits and an hour of guard duty for sitting like that when she was in the Women’s Army Corps basic training because she wasn’t sitting like a “lady.” “Things are totally reverse from then to now,” said Smith, during a Women’s Equality Day observance, Aug. 26, in … Read entire article »
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Honoring America’s Veterans – November 11 2009
Military veterans come in all shapes and sizes. While the majority of America’s veterans are male, there are hundreds of thousands of women proud to wear the title “veteran”. We would like to honor some of the military women we have featured here over the years. Female Chaplains Serve God and Country Four female ministers – an Episcopalian, a Unitarian Universalist, a Southern Baptist and an African Methodist Episcopal – all join the military …. But there’s no punch line here, just four strong-willed pioneers working in a career field with few others of the female persuasion. There are ministers who are veterans. There are lawyers who are veterans. Lady Lawyer in Battle Fatigues In the middle of the largest rebuilding effort since the Marshall Plan, a young woman in Iraq joined the ranks of the … Read entire article »
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Women in the War on Terror
More at the link: The role of women in the military has never been more controversial than it is during the War on Terror. Women warfighters are finding themselves in roles and in battles unlike those of their mothers and grandmothers. Amanda Pinson was a girl next door. She was an athlete and a cheerleader in high school. She volunteered for the Army and was sent to Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). No dummy, Mandy was a cryptologist, using her skills to analyze captured documents and intercepted communications. She loved her job and was an inspiration to her co-workers and superiors. She worked on base, near Tikrit, Iraq. Chuck Simmins … Read entire article »
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Our Best: Military Women At Work
Here are a series of photos for this afternoon showing our female warfighters doing their jobs and doing them well. … Read entire article »
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Top Ten Women Who Inspired in 2008
From America’s North Shore Journal, here are our picks for the most inspiring women of 2008. Spc. Monica Lin Brown: Awarded a Silver Star for her courage under fire as a combat medic. Spc. Sarah Nickol: Awarded the Army Achievement Medal for her courage under fire as a combat medic. Pfc. Perla Pedroza: Awarded a Bronze Star Medal with V Device for valor and a Purple Heart for her actions under fire, rescuing a fellow soldier from a burning vehicle. Cmdr. Heidi Squier Kraft: Kraft held MoH winner Jason Dunham’s hand as he lay dying. Her book on her tour is highly recommended. Col. (Dr.) Loree Sutton: Commanding the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, providing state of the art care to our wounded. Army CWO’s Amber and Lacey Smith and … Read entire article »
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