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Summary
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, traveling in hostile territory, or performing military
police duties. 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 those courageous women are told by the authors who use a format similar to
the one employed with such success in the book Stars in Blue. The profiles of
some thirty women and their photographs are included.
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