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I believe it was reported recently that she broke her back in the crash that ended their escape from Saddam's troops. Not only her back in more than one place, but her legs and arm also. It is unlikely that she could have engaged in a fire fight in that condition. She may have gotten off a few shots prior to the crash.

She seems not to be able to remember anything from that time until the rescue. Not too surprising. Most people who are injured in accidents do not remember the incident. The evidence for rape or torture isn't strong and most likely the doctors at the hospital did what they could for her. She must have been in great pain, delirious and frightened half to death. When her rescuers identified themselves as American Soldiers she replied, "I'm an American Soldier, too".

She was not part of a combat unit and I don't suppose it occurred to her she could find herself in the combat situation in which she was injured. It is the media that has elevated her story to the breathy heights of celebrity in their ever frenzied attempts to do whatever the immediate situation calls for politically, always denegrating the right and lauding the left. She's just been whisked along for the ride, like it or not. You just know they had in mind the whole women in combat thing, but she can't remember, sort of puts a sock in it.