Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Johanna Shaffer shares a cookie and a smile with an Afghan child while under the watchful security of Marines assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, during her all-female team's first mission in Farah province, Feb. 9, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Monty Burton From Westhawk:
The central mission of any counterinsurgency campaign is to protect the subject population. Protecting the non-combatant population is a laudable end in itself, but it is also a means to an end. By protecting the population, the allied government and supporting coalition forces hope to deny the insurgent forces sanctuary and support. The subject population will also be one of the most valuable sources of intelligence concerning the location and activities of the insurgents.
All obvious enough. But in traditional societies, especially Islamic societies, have coalition forces done all they could to tap the intelligence potential of half the subject population, namely the female half? This story from AFPS discusses an all-female U.S. Marine Corps patrol unit that has been fashioned to do just that:
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My Comment: Westhawk is right .... the glass ceiling has been broken.
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