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Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
In 2010, the United States Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Green Berets and Army Rangers on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach, and could build relationships -- woman to woman -- in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be "attached" to different teams, and for the first time, women throughout the Army heard the call to try out for this special ops program. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses firsthand reporting and experience with the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women hand-picked from across the Army, and the remarkable hero at its heart: 1st Lt. Ashley White, who would become the first Cultural Support Team member killed in action and the first CST remembered on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the Army Rangers with whom she served.
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- ISBN: 9780062333810
- ISBN: 006233381X
- Physical Description: xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Kandahar -- The call to serve. Uncle Sam needs you ; Hearing the call to serve ; The Landmark Inn ; 100 hours of hell ; Making the cut ; Training days ; Diamonds among diamonds -- Deployment. Arrival, Afghanistan ; Operation "Fit In" ; The "Terp" ; Climbing mountains in the night ; Making a difference ; The lies of war -- Last roll call. The first death ; A grief observed ; The man in the area ; Kandahar. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | UB 418 .W65 T94 2015 | 30775305492879 | General Collection | Available | - |
Ashley's War : The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
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Ashley's War : The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and the author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a New York Times bestseller published in March 2011. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Atlantic's Defense One site covering foreign policy and national security matters. Lemmon graduated with a BA in Journalism summa cum laude from the University of Missouri. From 1997 to 2004, she worked in the ABC News Political Unit, where she served as producer in the first year of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." She graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), where she received the 2006 Dean¿s Award for her work on women¿s entrepreneurship. (Bowker Author Biography)
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