The Iraq War's Legacies for Women in Combat
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On March 20, 2005, two years to the day after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, Army Specialist Ashley Pullen drove a Humvee in a routine patrol south of Baghdad. Pullen was a member of the 617th Military Police Company and, like all women in the military at that time, officially a noncombatant. But when he
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In pictures: The timeline and legacy of the Iraq war, 20 years on
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