The Forgotten And Forsaken U.S. War Veteran: Females -- ExaminerRetired United States Air Force Captain Barbara A. Wilson – aka Captain Barb and/or Captain Critical – likes to remind visitors to her website that “women are veterans too.”
The self-proclaimed ‘skeptical, irascible, doubting, iconoclastic pontificator’ uses the second paragraph of her blog to ask, “Did you know that there are almost two million women veterans?”
Females have served in some capacity in all of America’s wars, but nearly 230,000 have served in the Middle East since September 2001, and according to the Department of Defense, at least 120 have died (and more than 600 have been wounded) while doing so.
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