Tag Archives: women in the military

Santorum worries that female soldiers can’t hack it on the front lines because of all the “emotions”

By Maya | Published: February 10, 2012

TweetYesterday, the Pentagon announced plans to allow women into more front-line, combat jobs. The Service Women’s Action Network expressed disappointment that women will still be barred from serving as infantry, armor, and special operations forces, but said that the new rules were a big step in the right direction. As Adam Weinstein writes, “full gender [...]

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Explosives expert becomes second British woman to die in Afghanistan conflict

By Chloe | Published: April 21, 2011

Tweet The British Ministry of Defence reported earlier this week that Captain Lisa Jade Head, a bomb disposal expert stationed in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, had become the second British woman to be killed in the war in Afghanistan. Head was 29, and hailed from West Yorkshire. She was killed while diffusing a roadside bomb. [...]

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Lifting ban on women in combat

Originally posted in Community Blog

By Kiki Cardenas | Published: March 14, 2011

Tweetcrossposted at loosegarments.wordpress.com I had an abundance of strangers and friends ask me in complete shock and disbelief over WHY I would ever want to join the military, when I had told them that that’s what I was doing with my life. I had a million reasons to respond with really (I myself had a [...]