Equal opportunity is coming to the battlefield, bigtime.
Female pilots of attack and supply helicopters are as determined as any to go into battle in Iraq, even as reports come back of choppers downed by accidents and hostile fire. "I think resolve usually tends to strengthen in the face of adversity," said Lt. Hartleigh Caine, an Apache Longbow attack helicopter pilot and member of the high-tech 4th Infantry Division. "I don't think about what we're going to do in a different light because I'm a woman. I don't see myself as any different from my compatriots."
"I don't think there's a single person in my company that doesn't want to be over there and bring this thing to a close," she said.
Posted by Alan at March 27, 2003 10:14 PM