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Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq is a 2007 book by Kirsten Holmstedt about the Iraq War and women in the military with a foreword by Tammy Duckworth. Band of Sisters presents twelve stories of American women on the frontlines including America's first female pilot to be shot down and survive, the U.S. military's first black female combat pilot, a 21-year-old turret gunner ...
She also wrote the book, Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military (2013). Biank's story, "Having it All," was published in Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life. [2] She has said that her work is not about her own family, but is inspired by her personal experiences. [5]
[4] Her third book, Tears in the Darkness, is a history of the Bataan Death March and the American, Filipino, and Japanese combatants who were involved. [5] Her inspiration to write about military nurses came from her experience as a nurse as well as the fact that both her mother and husband have served in the U.S. military. [3]
Holm wrote two books about women in the military, beginning with Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution in 1982. Holm updated the book in 1992–1994, filling in American women's combat and military experiences in the invasions of Grenada, Panama and in the Gulf War. [9]
In addition to the U.S. military women who served in Vietnam, the exact number of female civilians who willingly gave their services on Vietnamese soil during the conflict is unknown; an estimate by American scholar Marilyn B. Young said that altogether, between 33,000 and 55,000 women worked in Vietnam during the war. [46]
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.
Gender and the military: Women in the armed forces of western democracies (Routledge, 2006). Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-9774245794. OCLC 237384904. Herbert, Melissa S. "Feminism, militarism, and attitudes toward the role of women in the military."
Through this process, her book identifies military brats as a hidden American subculture, and details patterns in this population along sociological and psychological lines. Wertsch is currently writing a second book that also discusses military brats, but includes discussion of other types of third culture children as well. She has stated that ...