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BEYOND THE CALL
Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
Beyond the Call is the riveting account of three female soldiers who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with their male counterparts in Afghanistan and worked with local Afghani women to restore their lives and village communities.
Maria Rodriguez, Sheena Adams, and Johanna Smoke had the same rigorous training as male soldiers under their belts: marching in scorching heat with forty-pound rucksacks on their backs, shooting M-16s through the windows of military vehicles, and defending their units in deadly firefights. And they did things that the male soldiers could never dogather intelligence on the Taliban from the women of Afghanistan. As females, these heroines were uniquely able to circumvent Muslim traditions and cultivate relationships with Afghan women who were bound by tradition not to speak with military men.
The radical work of these three brave women yielded transformative, groundbreaking results. By empowering local Afghan women with education and financial tools, Rodriguez, Adams, and Smoke helped communities rebuild their home nation, and gather the courage to resist the insurgency seeking to destroy it. For the women warriors of the military's Female Engagement Teams (FET), their work went beyond the call of duty in dangerous, courageous, and sometimes heartbreaking ways and they did it all while combatting the cutthroat masculinity of military brass and culture.
Beyond the Call follows the groundbreaking journeys of three women as they first fight against the male-dominated military culture and then enemy fire and tradition. And like the men with whom they served, their battles were not over when they returned home.
Eileen Rivers is a veteran of the US army and a former contributor to the Washington Post. She has been writing and reporting for over fifteen years, and has produced several interactive multi-media pages covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While serving in Kuwait following Desert Storm, Rivers worked in the former combat zone as an Arabic linguist, collecting and translating information from enemy targets. Today she is a USA Today editor and editorial board member.
The radical work of these three brave women yielded transformative, groundbreaking results. By empowering local Afghan women with education and financial tools, Rodriguez, Adams, and Smoke helped communities rebuild their home nation, and gather the courage to resist the insurgency seeking to destroy it. For the women warriors of the military's Female Engagement Teams (FET), their work went beyond the call of duty in dangerous, courageous, and sometimes heartbreaking ways and they did it all while combatting the cutthroat masculinity of military brass and culture.
Beyond the Call follows the groundbreaking journeys of three women as they first fight against the male-dominated military culture and then enemy fire and tradition. And like the men with whom they served, their battles were not over when they returned home.
Eileen Rivers is a veteran of the US army and a former contributor to the Washington Post. She has been writing and reporting for over fifteen years, and has produced several interactive multi-media pages covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While serving in Kuwait following Desert Storm, Rivers worked in the former combat zone as an Arabic linguist, collecting and translating information from enemy targets. Today she is a USA Today editor and editorial board member.
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Published 2018-11-06 by Da Capo Press |
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Published 2018-11-06 by Da Capo Press |