Ashley White died on Oct. 22, 2011, around three months into her tour in Afghanistan, when a soldier on the Special Operations task force she was ... the positions asked female soldiers to ...

These Afghan women, the Female Tactical Platoon (FTP), part ... action combat missions against the Taliban with U.S. Special Forces. As Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, the Afghan ...

These Afghan women, the Female Tactical Platoon (FTP), part ... action combat missions against the Taliban with U.S. special forces. As Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August 2021, the ...

The Afghan military's Female Tactical Platoon — a unit deployed with U.S. and Afghan special forces to collect intelligence from women and children. After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in ...

Rather, special forces recognized Afghan women as ... The experiences of Rochelle and other female soldiers in Afghanistan complicate any simplistic representations of them as trailblazers for ...

The exhaustive report surveyed more than 5,000 people assigned to Army special operations forces units, including 837 female troops ... battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Recognizing their vulnerability, these U.S. female combat veterans created ... these women who “fought alongside U.S. Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, fighting for their freedom and ...