When Major Mary Jennings Hegar was serving as a captain in Afghanistan her aircraft was shot down by enemy fire while she and her crew were evacuating injured soldiers. Though injured by a bullet that penetrated the helicopter, she completed the rescue mission while under fire on the ground — and received the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross for “outstanding heroism and selfless devotion to duty.”
One thing Hegar, who has served three tours in Afghanistan, did not do: get credit for serving in combat. It is illegal for women to be in official combat positions — and to get the benefits that come with them. Hegar and three other service women filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco last week in a long overdue challenge to the Pentagon’s nonsensical and unconstitutional ban.
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4 comments:
For one week a month don't piss em off!
Send a few million american women over there to bitch them out nonstop for a couple months and they will either commit mass suicide or lay down and surrender.
4:40, I see it the other way. Combat duty one week a month with three weeks off. Rotational cycles will fall into sinc on the platoon level. That would be one hell of a fighting force.
so the dingbats wanna lay down some serious lead and risk getting blown away in the process, but just try giving them the same godawful haircut the guys are subjected to and watch the tears start to fall.
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