At the time of the invasion, American military women were still banned from ground combat, but they quickly found themselves under enemy fire
At the time of the US-led invasion of Iraq, American military women were still officially banned from ground combat.
Yet the nature of that war with its ill-defined frontlines and insurgent attacks meant that female troops quickly found themselves under enemy fire – and they began firing back. Twenty years on, what started on that chaotic battlefield in Iraq ended up changing the US armed forces forever.
