Then-Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester stands at attention before receiving her Silver Star. (Spc. Jeremy D. Crisp/Army)
Military Times: This sergeant became the first woman in the U.S. Army to earn a Silver Star for combat valor
On the morning of March 20, 2005, then-Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester was tasked with assisting a supply convoy moving east of Baghdad, a job that meant scanning and clearing the route of any improvised explosive devices.
She’d done this job countless times before, getting shot at on almost a daily basis and seeing vehicles blown up more times than anyone would like to remember.
Executing daily patrols as a member of the National Guard’s Kentucky-based 617th Military Police Company meant guaranteed exposure to combat, something the Pentagon, until an order was signed in 2013, was not even allowing women to officially engage in as a occupational specialty.
“It was that one job where you can get out there and get dirty and be in an infantry-type environment,” she told the Tennessean in 2015.
“I guess it was one of the more exciting jobs in the military for women when I enlisted and it still is now.”
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WNU Editor: Her Silver Star citation is here.
2 comments:
Women in the military is such a bad idea, the brainchild of globalist interests who want to injure effective military's worldwide.
she did what you, pussy, could and would never do..your world is changing and women are now equal...get over it
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