The Women Who Serve,

(8 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Too Often Not Mentioned

Last night, on CBS 60min, they had a report on about an very young Lady who is an Army Medic.

How Pvt. Monica Brown Won A Silver Star

Some, in her unit even, question her receiving the ‘Silver Star’, I don’t especially if what they all say happened. She’s a professional, despite her age, in the Military Medical Professions and will continue to be so, in or out of the military!

Lara Logan Interviews A Young Woman Who Won A Silver Star For Exceptional Valor At Age 18

Private Monica Brown is only the second woman to be awarded the Silver Star since World War II. She’s an Army medic who risked her own life to save two critically wounded paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

Under Army regulations, women cannot be assigned to frontline combat units. But, as correspondent Lara Logan reports, in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq today, that’s exactly where they often end up.

Some male soldiers aren’t so happy about that, including members of Pvt. Brown’s own unit. But her superior officers say she is a hero – a hero who earned one of the military’s highest awards for exceptional valor when she was only 18 years old.

We seem to always talk about Soldiers who are male, as the majority are, and often leave out mention of the women who serve and especially those who are killed or maimed, and especially those who show Heroics!