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Lucca was born in the Netherlands.The Israel Defense Forces brought her to Israel and she trained there for six months with an American team. She was then inducted at Lackland in the United States and brought to the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona for training in an environment similar to Iraq. [11]
Lioness is a 2008 documentary film directed by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers [1] [2] about the first members of Team Lioness.This feature-length documentary tells the story of a group of Army servicewomen who went to Iraq as clerks, mechanics and engineers but ended up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war.
Buster (2002 – 2015), [1] an English Springer Spaniel, was a military detection dog who was active during the Iraq War.Because of his actions in discovering a hidden weapons cache, the dog was credited with saving service personnel from insurgents operating in the southern Iraqi town of Safwan.
Billie Grimes-Watson was a medic in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. As the initial U.S. invasion turned into bloody chaos, she would sprint through through the smoke and fire of blasts from improvised explosive devices and gunfire to save lives, struggling with the maimed and broken bodies of soldiers she knew and loved.
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The use of MWDs on prisoners by the United States during recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been controversial. [59] Dog ownership in the Middle East is relatively uncommon, as many Muslims consider dogs unclean. [60] Iraq War: The United States has used dogs to intimidate prisoners in Iraqi prisons. [61]
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
This Is War: Memories of Iraq (2007) Three Soldiers (2007) Year at Danger (2007) PBS Frontline: Bad Voodoo's War (2008) Bulletproof Salesman (2008) [4] Changing Us (2008) The Corporal's Diary: 38 Days in Iraq (2008) Leading to War (2008) Fighting for Life (2008) Lioness (2008) My Vietnam, Your Iraq (2008) [5] Reserved to Fight (2008) Brothers ...