Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield

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Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield

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the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield

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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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eng

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In 2010 the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other special operations teams on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach and could build relationships?woman to woman?in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be "attached" to different teams, and for the first time women throughout the Army, the National Guard, and the Reserves heard the call to join male soldiers on special ops missions. Each had her own reason for wanting to serve alongside America's finest fighters?for wanting, as the recruiting poster advertised, "to be part of history."In Ashley's WarAshley's War is a gripping combat narrative and a testament to the unbreakable bond of friendship born of war

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