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This is all very living history, which does not mean that women hadn't been serving before.

It just means that women hadn't officially been allowed to be in a number of roles and these

have slowly opened up over the years Each building upon really what the generation before

has showed was possible. It was just this year that U.S. women were officially allowed in combat roles.

That's officially.

But in Afghanistan, American women were on the front lines on night raids with

special forces including Navy SEALs six years ago. This week on War College

we talk about their stories.

You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing on the stories behind the front lines.

Here's your host, Jason Fields.

Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Gault, contributing editor at Wars Boring.

Today we're talking with author and journalist Gail Semmick Lemon.

Lemon is a senior fellow at the author and journalist Gail Semic Lemon.

Lemon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

and she's also the author of Ashley's War,

the untold story of a team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield.

And the book was actually just released in paperback.

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