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Megan Malia Leilani McClung (April 14, 1972 – December 6, 2006) was the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War, and the first female graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy to be killed in the line of duty.
Emily Perez was the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks. She was the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq. [1] Perez was buried at the West Point Cemetery. [citation needed]
The "Iraq Index" of the Brookings Institution also keeps a running total of Iraqi security force casualties. [ 1 ] The highest reported number of policemen and soldiers killed in the war has been 15,196 for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 (with the exceptions of April 2004 and March 2009). [ 2 ]
When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. Smithers was a “female searcher” with the National Guard and was attached to an ...
Lisa Jaster is a United States Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and engineer officer who was the first female reserve soldier to graduate from the Army's Ranger School. [2] She completed the training, which as many as 60 percent [3] of students fail within the first four days, after "recycling" through, or retrying, several phases of the multi-locational course.
Hampton died when the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter she was flying was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq on January 2, 2004. Captain Hampton was the first female military pilot in United States history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire. [5] [6] [7] She was also the first female combat casualty in Iraq from South Carolina.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units.
U.S. Army medics lift a wounded Iraqi police officer into an ambulance (March 2007) In May 2004, Associated Press completed a survey [232] of the morgues in Baghdad and surrounding provinces. The survey tallied violent deaths from May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, through April 30, 2004. From the AP ...