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Salman Pak, Iraq - March 20, 2005: Led by two women, 10 Kentucky National Guard troops face overwhelming odds and certain death at the hands of 50 ruthless insurgents.

The front line in Iraq is nothing more than a line in the sand, drawn and redrawn by a shadowy enemy that seizes limitless opportunities to hunt US forces. Technically, women are barred from holding positions in or in direct support of combat units. But of the 1,500 military casualties in Iraq, 30 are women. It's a disturbing amount, considering only 1,000 females have been killed in combat in the history of American warfare.

Women were first accepted in an active duty role to support the Korean War in the early 1950s. In 1992, the Air Force first allowed female pilots to fly in combat missions; a year later, women could serve on combat ships. In 1994, 90% of military jobs became available to women for the first time after the army dropped a longstanding rule that females couldn't hold positions with a substantial risk of capture. Women are still disqualified from direct-combat positions, but the war in Iraq is no traditional combat zone. Insurgents have blurred the front lines into a nationwide battlefield where the nature of every mission is uncertain.

With rampant IEDs, supply route ambushes, and attacks on military camps, every unit in Iraq faces the possibility of direct combat. For convoy escorts, the risk is probable. Supply trucks are frequently disabled in ferocious insurgent attacks, transforming escort troops into instant combat units. When non-combat troops like the National Guard are assigned to shadow supply units, they come face-to-face with well-trained, ruthless enemies in fevered battles that test their mettle in unimaginable ways.

In the fiercest battle in four months, just such an attack takes place. Near the infamous region of Salman Pak, violent Iraqi insurgents fire upon a 30-truck convoy along the Alternate Supply Route. In a horrific scenario, six truck drivers lay wounded and three more are dead after heavy enemy RPG and machine gun fire rips through their tractor-trailers. Three COSCOM soldiers, who provided an escort to the convoy, lay wounded and their armored HMMWV is trapped in the kill zone. There are as many as 50 insurgents surrounding the massive, disabled convoy. They are carrying handcuffs in hopes of taking hostages for ransom or videotaped beheadings, a grisly plan that is thwarted by a force from behind: a shadow unit trailing the convoy.

A Kentucky National Guard Unit of Military Police rushes the scene like seasoned warriors. The three armored HMMWVs that form Raven 42 scream up the shoulder of the road, parallel to the convoy. With a vengeance, Raven 42 open fire with .50 caliber machine guns and MK-19 grenade launchers, lighting up the field in front of the kill zone. The MPs swiftly turn up an access road next to the field of enemy. As they take position, one gunner is knocked unconscious from an RPG hit and three more are wounded upon dismounting. It is do or die for the seven uninjured.

In lightning speed, two MPs fearlessly infiltrate a dry irrigation ditch 20 meters away. On foot with guns blazing, the MPs clear the L-shaped trench line of ten insurgents. Behind them, the unit is under sniper fire. Two members fire AT-4 rockets into a nearby house from where the sniper fire is coming, killing the insurgents inside. Meanwhile, a lone gunner makes a remarkable discovery: seven sedans the insurgents stashed as getaway cars. He uses his MK-19 to blow them apart, destroying with them all hope for an insurgent victory.

Highlighting the stunning capabilities of one unit and two astonishing women among its ranks, Raven 42 kills 26 insurgents in the fiercest battle in more than four months. The women prove to be true warriors, and they are not alone: Their sisters-in-arms represent 15% of active soldiers and 25% of reservists, adding to the 20,000 women throughout history who have fought for America with all the courage, tenacity and expertise of the finest American soldier.