Ashley's War

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作者	Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
出版社	Harper
ISBN	9780062333834
出版时间	2015-04-01
字数	45.3万
分类	Harper,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

In 2010 the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battle field alongside Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other special operations teams on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach and could build relationships woman to woman in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be "attached" to different teams, and for the first time women throughout the Army, the National Guard, and the Reserves heard the call to join male soldiers on special ops missions. Each had her own reason for wanting to serve alongside America's finest fighters for wanting, as the recruiting poster advertised, "to be part of history."In Ashley's War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from across the Army, and of the remarkable hero at its heart: First Lieutenant Ashley White. Lemmon reveals how First Lieutenant White and the pioneers of CST-2 worked to earn the respect of combat-tested special operations warriors and illuminates the very human stakes of their battlefield successes. Transporting readers into the little-known world of the CSTs, a community of fierce women bound together by valor, danger, and the desire to serve, Ashley's War is a gripping combat narrative and a testament to the unbreakable bond of friendship born of war.

目录

Dedication

Contents

Author’s Note

Acronyms

Preface: Kandahar

I: The Call to Serve

1. Uncle Sam Needs You

2. Hearing the Call to Serve

3. The Landmark Inn

4. 100 Hours of Hell

5. Making the Cut

6. Training Days

7. Diamonds Among Diamonds

II: Deployment

8. Arrival, Afghanistan

9. Operation “Fit In”

10. The “Terp”

11. Climbing Mountains in the Night

12. Making a Difference

13. The Lies of War

III: Last Roll Call

14. The First Death

15. A Grief Observed

16. The Man in the Arena

17. Kandahar

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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