What's Behind "Lioness"
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When I told my family I was doing a story about some of the first American women to engage in direct ground combat, despite U.S. policy banning them from ground warfare, my sister-in-law said she thought women have been involved in ground combat for years.
You may have thought the same thing or be surprised to learn that while women aren’t supposed to serve in direct combat, they are.
In our story tonight on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, we’ll introduce you to women who never expected to fire a weapon while in Iraq but who ended up in urban warfare.
“It’s the longest few seconds before you pull the trigger, seems like it’s all in slow-mo,” 27-year-old Shannon Morgan, a former Army Specialist in Iraq, told me in an interview. “But you just got to keep ...
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
