The untold story of the first women in U.S. history to be sent into direct ground combat. | dG1fUG1hMlBBa095TkE
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00:00When I joined the Army, I enlisted as a track vehicle mechanic.
00:13To be honest with you, I was really not expecting to ever have to fire my weapon.
00:19It wasn't until after she came back that she told us some of the...
00:24Details.
00:25Details of the firefight.
00:30When we go outside of the wire, the enemy doesn't care which gender you are.
00:36I think my soldiers had a difficult time.
00:40I think a lot of the general public probably has no sense at all of the kinds of things women like the Lionesses are doing.
00:49They needed a Lioness team so badly, and so many, that even as a support officer I was pulled in.
00:56In Iraq and Afghanistan, the Lionesses did what had to be done.
01:02I felt like the Gestapo.
01:06I was running with that Marine firing team, and there's insurgents all around me firing at me.
01:12I think women are technically forbidden from participating in combat.
01:15Well, defining what is a combat job today is not so easy.
01:20America needs to know what's going on over there.
01:24That we're over there, and we're doing this.
01:26That we're out of there.
01:34I hope this guy grew into studying science.
01:36And I'll be Tulsa.
01:37I hope to see why we're feeling INCREASE this badasséma.
01:38That was just funny about it.
01:39Management Director protests began for your injuries so they weren't trying to get one of the things.
01:41A team in high school is doing, and the executive director streams began to improve theầu searchingism.