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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Women on the Front Lines

    About 16 percent of America's military is now composed of women. In Iraq, more than 130 have been killed, more than 800 wounded. Since World War II, two women have won Silver Stars — one by clearing insurgents from two trenches with hand grenades and killing three more with her M4 rifle.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    About 16 percent of America's military is now composed of women. In Iraq, more than 130 have been killed, more than 800 wounded. Since World War II, two women have won Silver Stars — one by clearing insurgents from two trenches with hand grenades and killing three more with her M4 rifle. But she was a military police officer acting in an emergency. America's female soldiers served on the front lines in Iraq, and they're doing the same thing in Afghanistan. No American women are assigned to combat. Anne Coughlin has filed a lawsuit to challenge that. A professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, she and some students started the Molly Pitcher Project. We hear about a dispute that's raging from the courts to the Pentagon to the Halls of Congress.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Anne Coughlin

      University of Virginia School of Law

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      Anna Mulrine

      Christian Science Monitor

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      Claire Russo

      Council on Foreign Relations

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    What's the Future of MOCA?
    1. 0:00Is MOCA Still in the Hole?
    2. 20:24White Abalone on Brink of Extinction
    3. 25:36Women on the Front LinesYou’re reading this
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