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    First Woman Gets Silver Star Since WW II

    Thursday, June 16, 2005
    WASHINGTON - A 23-year-old sergeant with the Kentucky National Guard on Thursday became the first female soldier to receive the Silver Star - the nation's third-highest medal for valor - since World War II.

    Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, who is from Nashville, Tenn., but serves in a Kentucky unit, received the award for gallantry during a March 20 insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq. Two men from her unit, the 617th Military Police Company of Richmond, Ky., also received the Silver Star for their roles in the same action.

    According to military accounts of the firefight, insurgents attacked the convoy as it traveled south of Baghdad, launching their assault from trenches alongside the road using r***es, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Hester and her unit moved through enemy fire to the trenches, attacking them with grenades before entering and clearing them.

    She killed at least three insurgents with her M4 r***e, according to her award citation. In the entire battle, 26 or 27 insurgents were killed and several more were captured, according to various accounts. Several Americans were also wounded in the firefight.

    "Her actions saved the lives of numerous convoy members. Sgt. Hester's bravery is in keeping with the finest traditions of military heroism," her award citation reads.

    "I'm honored to even be considered, much less awarded, the medal," Hester told the American Forces Press Service, a military-run information service. "It really doesn't have anything to do with being a female. It's about the duties I performed that day as a soldier."

    Hester, a native of Bowling Green, Ky., joined the Kentucky Army National Guard in April 2001 and moved to Nashville in 2003, according to a biography provided by the Army. She works as a retail store manager. Her unit deployed to Iraq in November 2004 and remains in the Baghdad area, escorting convoys and assisting the Iraqi Highway Patrol.

    Hester's father, Jerry, also of Bowling Green, said: "I'm overwhelmed at what she's accomplished in Iraq. It's something to be very proud of and my wife and I are. Leigh Ann is a very good soldier."

    He added: "She played softball and basketball all through high school, and she's won a lot of games. But those games didn't mean nowhere near what this medal does and what she's done for her country."

    Also receiving the Silver Star for that action was Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein of Henryville, Ind., and Spc. Jason Mike of Radcliff, Ky. Five other members of their unit received other medals for the action, including another woman, Spc. Ashley Pullen of Edmonton, Ky.

    The awards to Hester and Pullen come only weeks after some Republicans in Congress abandoned an effort to curtail the roles of military women in combat zones. The Pentagon and some Democrats and other Republicans opposed the measure.

    Current Pentagon policy prohibits women from serving in frontline combat roles - in the infantry, armor or artillery, for example. But the nature of the war in Iraq, with no real front lines, has seen women soldiers take part in close-quarters combat more than in any previous conflict.

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    congrats Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester

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    go ladies!!!!! hmmmm. perhaps a new perspective on women in combat?

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    Congrats, good for her and god bless our soldiers...

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    reppin Nashville baby..thats awesome, nice to see women get some recognition.

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    Is she single?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Vandoo
    Is she single?
    She sounds butch!.

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    outstanding

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Vandoo
    Is she single?
    No shyt! hahahaha!

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    That makes me VERY proud!! I believe there should have been mor ehanded out to women, especially since the first gulf war.

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    Good for her.

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    I'm proud of you guys......I kinda expected the anti women in combat drill!

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    Hey cb... what is/was your mos? MP?

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    I am Navy and Im a Crypto Tech. I am working out of my assigned rate right now as a physical security officer....nothing close to MP however.
    1. Once a cheat always a cheat!
    2. YES, SHE can get pregnant the first time!
    3. NO, PULLING out IS NOT a RELIABLE method of Birth Control. DAMMMMIT..... Wrap that shyte UP!!

    Women over 30 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.

    For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free". Here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire Pig, just to get a little sausage.

    What the mind can conceive....the body will achieve!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commando_Barbi
    I am Navy and Im a Crypto Tech. I am working out of my assigned rate right now as a physical security officer....nothing close to MP however.
    gotcha...crypto, as in cryptography??
    Interesting, I work in Network Security... small world. Nice talking to you, hope to chat again sometime!

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsa
    Congrats, good for her and god bless our soldiers...
    definitely... It helps me get through a shitty day to think about all the men & women risking their lives for us. It puts a lot of things in perspective...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commando_Barbi
    I'm proud of you guys......I kinda expected the anti women in combat drill!

    My little boys are all grown up

    Im still againts women in the combat unit! Will always be!
    but she kicked ass like a soldier!

    is she single?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Vandoo
    Im still againts women in the combat unit! Will always be!
    but she kicked ass like a soldier!

    is she single?
    1. Once a cheat always a cheat!
    2. YES, SHE can get pregnant the first time!
    3. NO, PULLING out IS NOT a RELIABLE method of Birth Control. DAMMMMIT..... Wrap that shyte UP!!

    Women over 30 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.

    For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free". Here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire Pig, just to get a little sausage.

    What the mind can conceive....the body will achieve!

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    Im a cryptologist. sounds like we are in similar worlds

    Quote Originally Posted by Heracles74
    gotcha...crypto, as in cryptography??
    Interesting, I work in Network Security... small world. Nice talking to you, hope to chat again sometime!
    1. Once a cheat always a cheat!
    2. YES, SHE can get pregnant the first time!
    3. NO, PULLING out IS NOT a RELIABLE method of Birth Control. DAMMMMIT..... Wrap that shyte UP!!

    Women over 30 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.

    For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free". Here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire Pig, just to get a little sausage.

    What the mind can conceive....the body will achieve!

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    That's freaking awesome. Congrats to her. We need more women like her.

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