Category: Women

Posts involving current or former female members of the United States Military.

Woman Soldier gets rude Welcome in Iraq

Post author By combattales
Post date July 1, 2012

Welcoming Gift
By Marcie

Camp Falcon: Baghdad 2007.

After leaving Kuwait and then spending four days on a holdover at the Baghdad International Airport, I was just ready to get to where ever the heck it was we were going. The arrangements there were not too pleasant; there was a choice of sleeping on a concrete floor where everybody was hanging out watching TV, or take your chances outside on the rocks where the unearthly Iraqi bugs roamed.

Army Iraq (2002-2011) Women

Female veteran tells of long journey to Kuwait

Post author By combattales
Post date June 12, 2012

The Journey
By Marcie

Kuwait

Finally the nineteen hours of flight has ended. As the plane lands the seriousness of our situation sets in. Our captain stands up and begins his briefing, although who is really listening?

Army Iraq (2002-2011) Women

Woman Iraq veteran describes the pain of losing comrade

Post author By combattales
Post date May 31, 2012

To Whom It May Concern
By Marcie

Camp Liberty, Baghdad 2007
The walk back from the Chapel was different this time. Not because he was in our squad and someone I had spoken to moments before the death, not because this was the fourth casualty our unit had suffered so far this month, the mind somehow blocks those truths out. This was a new emotion, something that many of us must have been feeling for awhile now and yet still managed to keep buried for so long now. This was Hate, pure and simple. Hate for the people, hate for the country, and hate for our damned selves for having to be there.

Tags 2007, Army, bagdad, iraq, women