You speak what you don’t know.
NEO is one of the METLs the Marine Corps conducts. Within those operations, female Marines are pulled into teams to assist in dealing with females, fully integrated into supporting infantry.
She died a US Marine. Serving and helping people is the other side of the coin.
Xiden and his team killed her.
Would the Marines even be there if this operation didn’t include the protection of U.S. embassy staff. Seems odd to me that they’d be playing such a prominent role in a military campaign in a landlocked sh!thole like that.