Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Consider Date:   2/18/2012 6:47:10 PM

The 5’ 2” woman I saw “manning the 40mm chain gun… an MP.  But there she was, her National Guard MP unit called to Iraq.  That’s right, MPs were never intended for combat.  She was squirming up into the gun turret of an armored Humvee.  Atop that vehicle, despite the armor, she would be shredded in an IED attack.   No shortage of guts (considering that her contemporaries were probably back home hanging out at the mall). 

Her image of bravery notwithstanding, were she in my vehicle and we were hit.  I KNOW my mind would be focused… significantly on her.  I would not leave her to suppress fire.  Staying with her would a) jeopardize the defense and b) increase my vulnerability and c) complicate the extraction.  The men reading this will understand the dilemma…  the women will not (though you may say you do).

God bless her father and mother.  Blessed is the ground she walks on. Lest she marry a combat vet, no husband will ever KNOW her.