Ashley's War

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I remember when this team was getting put together, and heard of it randomly on and off after the fact. This is an interesting peek inside, of the women that made up the Cultural Support Teams and what they went through and did. Their main mission was to act as protectors and barriers for the women and children in villages when their teams entered and try to get useful information from them with help from their interpreters. Fascinating listen.

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MallenNC

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I thought it would be interesting to share books about women in the military for #AboutaSoldier since so many of these types of books focus on men. #MagnificentMarch

OriginalCyn620, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 🙌🏼❤️ 4y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That‘s awesome! 4y

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nelehelen

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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On this Thanksgiving day, I finished this inspiring and humbling book about the first group of women in the Cultural Support Team that worked alongside the Rangers and Green Berets in Afghanistan. They helped to build relationships and gather information from other women. The author did a great job profiling the different women in this program. I am in awe of their strength and dedication. And, I am grateful for their service.

#Booked2019

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

nelehelen @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage this is for the “soldier‘s story” prompt! 4y

Cinfhen I bought this on a #KindleDailyDeal but still haven‘t gotten to it yet. I‘m looking forward to reading this one ☝️ Thanks for posting and sharing 4y

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Librarybelle

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A little shopping today resulted in a mini #bookhaul . The top two are from Target, and the others are from Dollar Tree. The tagged book I grabbed for the #soldiersstory prompt for #booked2019 .

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

BarbaraTheBibliophage I‘m planning to read that one for #soldiersstory also. I picked it up during a Book Outlet sale awhile back. 5y

Cinfhen It‘s my choice as well, @BarbaraTheBibliophage I bought it on a #KindleDailyDeal but The Dollar Store!!! That‘s an awesome find @Librarybelle 5y

Bklover Thanks for the idea for #soldiersstory ! 5y

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BarbaraTheBibliophage

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Grab up this well-rated book, on Kindle Daily Deal today. Especially if you‘re thinking of joining us for #booked2019.

More prompts are coming soon, I promise. But trust me on this one, okay?

#nonfictionnovember

sprainedbrain Yes, ma‘am! 😃 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @sprainedbrain 👏🏻👏🏻 5y

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Cinfhen

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Couldn‘t help myself... just bought 3 #KindleDailyDeals #NonFictionNovember #Booked2019 #SorryNotSorry 😃

DebinHawaii Good picks! I just pulled up The Indifferent Stars Above which I bought a while ago after finishing The Hunger about the Donner Party. Let me know when you start it. 😉I really enjoyed the Gabrielle Union book when I listened to the audio book. 5y

Ashley_Nicoletto I also picked up The Indifferent Stars Above. I had heard great things about it on a podcast. 5y

literarymermaid I read Ashely's War last year after listening to the author's TEDtalk. It was fascinating! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 5y

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Librarybelle Let my just add my voice to The Indifferent Stars Above...it‘s one of my favorite books. It really humanizes and puts into context what happened with the Donner Party. @DebinHawaii @Ashley_Nicoletto 5y

JacqMac Litsy is not good for my bank account. Great for my TBR though. Lol 5y

TrishB I can never help myself! 5y

Cinfhen I‘m soooo excited to receive the #LitsySealofApproval @DebinHawaii @Ashley_Nicoletto @StoredFeminism @Librarybelle @JacqMac @TrishB 🤗🤗🤗I‘ll be reading these for challenges starting in January🙌🏻❣️ 5y

Megabooks I enjoyed the Union book a lot. Hope you do too! 5y

Cinfhen Have you read or heard anything about the others? @Megabooks 5y

Megabooks No, but the Donner party one sounds interesting. 👍🏻 (should I 👍🏻 a book with cannibalism? 😳) 5y

Bookishlie Just got Ashley‘s War at a hotel lending closet!! 5y

Cinfhen I love that idea @Bookishlie I‘ve never thought to ask or look when I‘m in a hotel 📚🏨 💚 5y

Cinfhen Bought 3 more yesterday @TrishB 🙊it‘s less than a Starbucks 5y

TrishB Exactly 😁 but we don‘t need to justify to each other! 5y

Bookishlie @Cinfhen it‘s not in all hotels. My husband travels a lot for work so almost all the extended stay hotels we‘ve stayed in has one. They are really nice! 5y

Reviewsbylola I liked the Donner book. So difficult to imagine though. 5y

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monalyisha

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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This was a book club pick & I was dreading it. I would never have chosen to read it on my own. It‘s about women in the military, specifically the first female unit to assist a Special Ops Team in Afghanistan. Their job was to uncover crucial information about insurgents by talking to Afghan women & children, something the male soldiers were culturally *forbidden* to do. This was at a time when women were banned from combat roles.

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monalyisha 1/6: The women profiled in this book could not have been MORE different from me: ambitious, driven, duty-bound, physically-fit gym junkies, with will power as their dominant personality trait. Here‘s what I‘m driven to do: eat cookies & read beautiful words all day long. My ambition is finding the perfect, reclined position from which to do it. Here‘s how many push-ups I can do: none. (edited) 5y

monalyisha 2/6: That being said, I‘m glad I read this... if only because it was the furthest outside of my literary comfort zone I‘ve ever traveled.

I questioned the writing at times: the way the women are described, physically, from their blue eyes to the word “leggy”, gave me real pause. (edited) 5y

monalyisha 3/6: The breed of feminism I encountered is WAY different from the kind I‘m used to; one soldier was even a Women‘s Studies major in college — but ALL of them identify as soldiers first & women second. They‘re all out to prove that women can do anything men can do (fortunately, not in heels... though that used to be a real dress code requirement of nurses on the battlefield — for a long time!). (edited) 5y

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monalyisha 4/6: However, quite a to-do is made about how the women never felt comfortable with other women before meeting the other soldiers in their unit. It almost feels implied that yes, women soldiers are powerful, but that they‘re the exception to the gender rule. Then again, at other times, a point was made to emphasize how traditionally-female strengths (like communication) are just as valuable as traditionally-male strengths (assertiveness; muscles). (edited) 5y

monalyisha 5/6: Patriotism ultimately rules the day, & that feels weird to me. 🤷‍♀️

I can‘t say that I loved everything about “Ashley‘s War” but I can say that I gained real knowledge in an area where my knowledge was (& is still) lacking, & that the powerful sadness I felt while listening was genuine. It‘s both an informative & an emotionally-gripping account of an historical moment that deserves attention. (edited) 5y

monalyisha 6/6: Conclusion: it‘s not *always* ill-advised to wear mascara on the battlefield but it *is*, undeniably, a terrible idea if you‘re planning to read this book. (edited) 5y

vivastory Wow, another funny, insightful review! 👏👍🤘 5y

monalyisha Thanks @vivastory 😊! I really appreciate that. 5y

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Ash.on.the.line

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My name is Ashley!
My username is one I have used for awhile now on other social media. I came up with it by combining my nickname Ash & on the line; it‘s from a poem I wrote in 4th grade. It was called heart on the line which sounded romantic but was actually quite morbid lmao! 🤣 something about stealing an actual heart and hanging it up! I was a twisted kid!
Pic is me from a last year.
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Chelleo

Ash.on.the.line I reread the poem a few years ago and it made me laugh so then it stuck. I made it a username; the rest is history! 😝 6y

Cinfhen That's hilarious 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I have a couple of cringe-worthy poetry journals stashed away. I figure I‘ll give the kids a good laugh when they have to clean out my stuff someday! 6y

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Chelleo That‘s a cool story...great that you still have it! I have an old paper I wrote about my ideal spouse. Surprisingly, my husband fits most of the criteria for my then teenage standards 🙄😂 although he doesn‘t have a tattoo 🤣😂🤣 6y

Ash.on.the.line @BarbaraTheBibliophage ha that‘s great! I have few that I think will be a hoot as well one day! 6y

Ash.on.the.line @Chelleo that‘s hilarious! I guess you always knew what you wanted 😂 6y

britt_brooke 😆👏🏻 This is a great story! 6y

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Audrey

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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The women depicted here are just amazing and with such an important mission. Truly groundbreaking and they paved the way for women to be in combat and to join special forces. Why it took the military so long to realize that women were necessary for our two long, current wars in the ME is beyond me. It's really just common sense that women are needed to work and talk with the women in Afghanistan & Iran to help ensure the safety of all involved.

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BarbaraTheBibliophage

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Some goodness arrived just in time for today's #snowday! They were on sale at #BookOutlet for International Women's Day. Happy to have a new #bookhaul, even though Mr. B said he thought I had no more room. LOL

saresmoore No more room! Hahahahahahahahaha! Lovely stack, too. 7y

Nebklvr

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

BarbaraTheBibliophage p.s. I listened to Big Girls Don't Cry last year and loved it enough to buy a hard copy.

Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

moranadatter I loved The Geek Feminist Revolution. Witches of America has been sitting in my TBR since it came out. (edited) 7y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @kmdartist I'll probably save Witches of America for fall and read Geek Feminist sooner. But who knows? 7y

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literarymermaid

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This is a gorgeous story. The author took care to explain the military jargon and general atmosphere. I expected them to deal with a lot of negativity based on stories integrations I've heard of full on female integration, but these people understood the mission was bigger than an integration story and it really made it something special. I really loved it and it gives me hope for the integrations that are happening. They did everyone right here.

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Iindseyo

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Just starting a new audiobook for #nonfictionnovember and omg I'm already so ragey over the sexism but so impressed by these womens' stories. 💪💪#audiobook

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Liz1

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Currently reading this book for my book club. Really loving it so far.

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