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To: King_of_Hindsight
Ease up there, Diddle, I'm a former Jar head myself...no one knows Molly better than I do...but everyone is calling her a hero..she is NOT a hero...she is a survivor.

The spec ops that went in to get her, and anyone else they hoped to find, were the heros.

I have also spent my life after the Corps as a cop. I like female cops, but when the bar fight goes down, I don't want them as my back up...I want Joe and Rick and Bubba...sorry...no women in combat will always be my creed.

At the risk of being flamed and called unpatriotic I suggest calmness until the total and real story is searched out, then there will be no doubt about who did what to who and when for sure!

707 posted on 04/03/2003 8:32:01 AM PST by VOYAGER
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To: VOYAGER
All this reminds me of the Cpt Linda Bray story back in Operation Just Cause. Original Army reports erroneously claimed that Captain Bray had "crashed through the gate in a jeep armed with a .50 caliber machine gun. Three enemy dead were found later."

In reality, the fight occurred over a PDF dog kennel, it lasted ten minutes, no one was killed, and Bray gave the attack order over the radio. Though there was little interest in Captain Bray at first, as soon as the first "women in combat" stories emerged, everyone wanted to talk to her, and the capture of the kennel soon reached legendary proportions. Linda Bray was trotted out before all four morning talk shows, and eventually Rep. Patricia Shroeder (D-Colorado) was using Bray as an example of why laws barring woman from combat should be repealed.

People who are interested in what really happened need to wait & see here.

717 posted on 04/03/2003 9:37:46 AM PST by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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