I have to say this, but your post is very clueless, and terribly disrespectful.
That woman and her compatriots were outgunned and outnumbered. They were literally fight for their very lives. If they lost they would have been massacred in a most brutal fashion. The women would fare the worst as they would have been raped then massacred, or made into sex slaves.
BTW, you lived for some time in a very sheltered and pampered environment on an ARAMCO compound in KSA. You have traveled a bit in the region. That does not mean that everyone else on this forum is ignorant of the outside world or the middle east. There are others too who have traveled and seen the world. You are probably grateful to the Saudis for the great income and good life as an ARAMCO employee.
Why was this woman IN COMBAT? Women in combat? I didn’t think too many cultures thought that was a good idea.
LIVING there for five years was an education for me. I grew up knowing NO Saudis, Arabs or Muslims.
Growing up our family had no money for travel. We were strictly blue collar. We were grateful for what we had at the time. The ARAMCO money we traveled on was especially to places that we KNEW we'd never ordinarily see OR return to.
The incomes we made we earned. There is no gratitude for that. Why would there be? ARAMCO has to pay those wages to get the American engineers to live and work there. The company gave us "re-pat bonuses" to insure a great trip home. All ARAMCONS HAD to out of the Kingdom at least three weeks a year because it knew that we needed it.
So many ARAMCONS were going home on leave and NOT returning to the KSA, that ARAMCO started giving us four-figure bonuses JUST to come back and work some more. There are Americans who worked 35 years over there.
ARAMCO doesn't hire American engineers under 26 and mandatory retirement is 60, so the working lifespan in limited. THIRTY-FIVE years is just about the maximum.
We were there only five years, but it sure seemed longer. When we landed at LAX on our final flight home I kissed the floor of the LAX airport. I was so glad to be home for good.