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A female soldier at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Walton near Kandahar, Afghanistan, June 5, 2011.
Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2011

Open quoteOut here, there is no male gender and no female gender. Our gender is soldier.Close quote

  • STAFF SGT. VINCENT VETTERKIND,
  • on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have altered the role of women in the military; the campaigns have put women in harm's way more than ever before, with 28 female U.S. soldier deaths in Afghanistan and 111 deaths in Iraq
Photo: REUTERS / Jason Reed | Source: New York Times