Posted on 03/23/2005 6:29:09 PM PST by Flavius
Since joining ABCNEWS, Raddatz has covered the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and India while traveling with the U.S. Secretary of State. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was recognized with other ABCNEWS recipients with a Peabody Award. She has also made frequent trips to Iraq to cover the conflict there since the war started in March, 2003.
Raddatz has been awarded two Emmys for coverage of Kosovo and the Elian Gonzalez case in the news program Weekend World News.
From 1993-1998, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio, where she reported on foreign policy, defense and intelligence issues. During her tenure at NPR, she made numerous trips to eastern Europe to cover the war in Bosnia.
Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABCNEWS Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. In addition to covering several presidential campaigns, she has traveled extensively, writing and reporting from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and Europe.
Raddatz has been honored for her journalistic contributions many times, including a 1996 Overseas Press Club award for her live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Her reporting was also recognized with the National Headliner Award for team coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, and two Radio and Television News Director Association (RTNDA) first-place awards. In addition she has received two Associated Press first-place awards.
For immediate release
May 7, 1997
NPR's Morning Edition To Examine The Roles Of Women In The Military
-- Five-Part Series To Air the Week of May 12 --
Washington, D.C.--- During the week of May 12th, Morning Edition will present a five-part series from National Public Radio's Pentagon correspondent Martha Raddatz on the diverse roles of women in the military.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women In Politics
With Loretta Sanchez and Jane Swift, moderated by Martha Raddatzhere
John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation
October 26, 2003
In this photo released by the U.S. Army Wednesday, March 23, 2005, U.S. Army 503rd MP Battalion, 18th MP Brigade gunner SPC Casey Cooper stands next to a his damaged Humvee near Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) recently, after it received a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade, knocking him unconscious. Cooper was revived and helped his fellow soldiers defeat an attack on a coalition supply convoy March 20, about 18 miles southeast of Baghdad, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Sgt. 1st Class Marshall P. Ware)
1998:
Association of the Bar City of New York on "Regulating Sexual Activity in the Military" (How the military can successfully regulate relations between men and women)
On March 18, 1998 a panel of 6 was formed to examine gender integration versus separation, military justice attitudes toward sexual misconduct and the need to change military culture.
Serving on the panel were Michael Cooper, President, Assoc. of the Bar City of NY; Robert Maginnis, Project Director, Military Readiness, Family Research council; Linda Bird Franke, Author; Martha Raddatz, Moderator of panel, Correspondent, Defense, National Public Radio; William Fredericks, Member Assoc. of the Bar City of NY; and Marjorie Silver, Chair, Committee on Sex and Law.
In the audience were members of the military, former military personnel, leaders of veteran's organizations e.g. DAV, AL and Women Veterans of America.
Testimony was taken from the audience on the forums issues. Recommendations were made to:
1. Change the UCMJ Laws on Sexual Assault and Harassment to reflect the judicial system with the same kind of prosecution and punishment given to civilians.
2. Update the UCMJ Laws to reflect today's' integrated military.
3. Allow reporting of assaults and harassment without reciprocation's and threats from CO's and NCI's and military investigation teams (CID etc.)
4. To change the "Good ol' Boys Network" attitude and the idea that "women do not belong in the military".
5. To treat all men and women in the military with equality and respect.
Easy for me to say, but I wish he would have smiled for the camera.
"..M4 [light machine gun]..." Say what? Isn't the M4 the standard issue rifle?
It must have looked pretty good on paper - 40-50 ambushers versus a convoy. Abdul's gonna need him some new licks...
So basically, undermine the military institution. I don't want to be treated equally, I'm not a man and I can't hold my own against one. If a woman can do it as well as a man, good for her, we have a volunteer army. Let's say theres a draft, should both men and women be drafted? No.
It's NPR flack Radditz. You expect her to know weapons? Yes, it's the standard issue carbine.
You catch the bit where the guy did a Rambo and started laying down fire with his carbine and the SAW?
While I am opposed to women in combat for many reasons, it isn't due to lack of bravery. These women did exemplary service and fought bravely.
BUMP
"I started firing with my M4 [light machine gun] with my left hand and the 249 [machine gun] with my right hand, trying to lay down fire on both sides," said Mike.
Mike is a bad ass.
In the end, the unit killed 27 insurgents.
27-0. Muj had a very bad day.
27 to zip is a good day. No guerrilla force can sustain those kind of losses and maintain a force.
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