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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 2/10/12: Santorm, watch "Lioness:" A doc about an elite team of women soldiers on the frontlines in Iraq Quicklink submitted by Amanda Lang (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Lioness tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct ground combat. Without the same training as their male counterparts but with a commitment to serve as needed, these young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country's first generation of female combat veterans. Lioness makes public, for the first time, their hidden history. Told through intimate accounts, journal excerpts, archival footage, as well as interviews with military commanders, the film follows five Lioness women who served together for a year in Iraq. With captivating detail, this probing documentary reveals the unexpected consequences that began by using these Army women to defuse tensions with local civilians, but resulted in their fighting... |
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Defuse
by Richard Pietrasz on Monday, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:08:04 PM