GI Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/us/17women.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/us/17women.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq — There is no mistaking that this dusty, gravel-strewn camp northeast of Baghdad is anything other than a combat outpost in a still-hostile land. And there is no mistaking that women in uniform have had a transformative effect on it.

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