(Washington)-the army lieutenant ASHLEY white died in southern Afghanistan the last weekend of the front, in the army said the first victim is a new and important wartime attempts to gain the trust of Afghan women.
White, like the other female soldiers working with the special HangDongDui, brought in to do, it will be her male teammates awkward or impossible. The women in skimpy search, for example.
She died, the taliban in kandahar the heart of bombings, show that elite American special operations teams in a remote village of working women risk.
Military leaders and the procedure in the other female soldiers said, the payoff is huge, even when it hit the fuel to the role of women in the debate.
Said, "we can do, men can not do, and they all start to realize, sergeant, who like objects. Baldwin white deployed to Afghanistan with specialized training" cultural support "forces in the first group of women this year.
Often can't even talk to their male counterparts because strictly separate men and women and traditional behind most of the time with the door of the cultural norms woman Afghan women. The compulsory problem, made the only discontent, military officials said, and has already threatened trust and cooperation of the villagers. 10 years ago from the start of the war, afghans special hatred "attacking at night practice, the men in foreign troops to search and family, women's traditional holy.
"Baldwin said:" we can search for women, find the other half of information, when accepting a reporter to interview. "If you missed half of the land, how to attract people lay effective?"
This problem is 8 years of time. It realized from two years ago, because they tried to apply the principle of hailing protect civilians, and try to they refused to insurgents information of U.S. commanders frustration-they did not arrive at most of the Afghan population.
Now, the first female soldiers as commandos. They are training to dig deep key information does not apply to men's team members to determine the equivalent of women as insurgents and figure, the Afghan women are used to hidden weapons.
American women have been the front lines in Afghanistan since the start of the war, with the passage of time, they have been used in health care initiative and other programs to achieve through the Afghan population. They went through the whole warfront and army troops and the marines, often in development projects or as part of the psychological warfare, right now is called miso, or military information support action to help.
But as the elite special HangDongDui incite the whole country do hailing "stable line move" the little village, they complained to the superior, they don't have to include as much as 71% of the population are women and children.
"We have to wait too long, and said:" go to the command sergeant. Major Ledford Stigall. "We have a lot of people will be focused and capture, it really kill someone said, hey, it's not kill, the development of it, capture, a country can take care of themselves."
"Women have the right to speak," he said. "They can in their social influence."
In 2009, army began, and then top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, general Stanley mekarius, and, then top U.S. commander in the Middle East under the pressure of general David petraeus, the development of cultural support service.
Last November, the first group of women experienced a hard five days of evaluation, testing their body and military skills, their problem solving and writing ability and their mental and emotional state. By moving to six weeks of training plan.
And in January of this year, the first 28 woman was deployed to Afghanistan and the army BieDongDui and special forces team.
They in two women's team more special kind of part of the units, usually Numbers about a dozen. They go out into the village patrols and special operations, to help the Afghan women engaged in the establishment and community relations.
In the process, they can also collect relevant in the area of people's valuable intelligence, information, they may not be able to get from men.
The captain in the first group, Adrian Bryant deployment.
Marine special forces team in helmand province, Bryant said, the initial reaction from the population is not temperature is not fire.
However, in her first patrol, team introduced the she and her teammates a village head KeJiWei.
"He has been in constant abuse of the taliban, was kidnapped and return, he does not want to work, because the taliban to the fear of retaliation coalition," Bryant told reporters.
Kobe Bryant and her teammates to he talked about what they can do for the village women, including medical aid and skills training, such as sewing, they can bring. He is interested in.
Helmand province is a very conservative regions, women are really see, they don't spread therefore, we have to hide our sewing procedures; We run, combined with our clinic, "Bryant said." In the case that the women were deliberation, because they are here to learn from our skills, they cover clinic day. "
Baldwin was sent to the north and army special operations teams in Queensland and province. They met women who at first hesitated.
"We all kitted out patrol and, they almost is terrible, but once we take off, helmet, wear a scarf, they will realize that this is a women's fear will disappear," she said.
Baldwin and Bryant said, Afghan women and children in the meeting from several to dozens of growth. Both say they have thought, they in the eight months during the deployment of the instant the danger, even though they know what is possible.
"Any one day, they walked into a village, and engaged in and population, they are in for their detailed the special forces, seals, or special operators of the same risks, and so I would say this is Ren Lumpkin," said Michael, special operations chief deputy assistant secretary of defense. "These women are in a very tough place and move on."




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