"Book presents 12 riveting tales of U.S. women fighting in Iraq"

Holmstedt, Kirsten. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq. New York: Stackpole Books, 2007.

Adapted from book review by Vincent Bosquez, SPECIAL TO THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS - NEWS, Sunday, August 26, 2007.

"More than 155,000 women have served in Iraq since 2003 (four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991) and more than 430 have been wounded and more than 70 killed, almost twice the number of U.S. military women killed in action in Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm combined.

"While the military still won't allow women to serve in the infantry or to drive a tank, changes in wartime tactics and technology have muddied the waters when it comes to defining combat duty, and females are now dodging bullets and improvised explosive devices next to their male counterparts.

"And, [the women] don't consider themselves heroes for the doing to job they've been trained to do."

Wow! Gotta order this on interlibrary loan, today!