Afghanistan Quote by Loretta Reynolds

The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third…

— Renee Montagne

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas,…

— Arundhati Roy

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

— James F. Amos

Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite…

— Loretta Reynolds

The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those…

— Renee Montagne

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with…

— Renee Montagne

All women are created equal Then some become marines.

— Anonymous

I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't in combat.…

— MJ Hegar

Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to…

— Tammy Duckworth

I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there were…

— Lloyd Austin

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

— Gail Collins