Female Combat Soldiers in T2K

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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

...the Lioness teams in Iraq and A-Stan, and the women who are TDY'd to infantry units to search local women-one of the latter (a medic in the 82nd Airborne) won a Silver Star in A-Stan for going after some wounded guys whose Hummer ran over an IED, all the while being under fire, and in between treating the injured, returning it. The Houston Chronicle article (she was from a town NE of Houston IIRC) mentioned that some in the unit she was attached to wanted her to get something bigger than a Silver Star, but Division declined. Trouble was, that medic got pulled from the TDY assignment and back in the aid station when all the publicity broke. Then there was KY NG Sgt. Leann Hester and the Raven 42 incident. She was the first woman to get a Silver Star since an Army Nurse at Anzio won one in WW II.

I knew about the female medal winners, and women used to search female captives, but the Lioness Teams is new info to me...I sense another Google search coming...