One suspects that if the terrorists tried to kidnap this female soldier, PFC Jessica Nicholson (and her M249 light machine gun "Camille"), they might pray to Allah the rest of the Army comes to rescue them in time:
“While other soldiers were searching a car, the driver had stepped out of the car and I was searching the driver. He didn’t have any weapons on his person,” she said.Read it all, natch. Posted by Mitch at July 1, 2004 05:48 PM“The other soldiers checking the vehicle at first thought it was clear. Then one of the soldiers thought that something didn’t seem right. So, he searched the car again,” she added.
During the second search, the soldier spotted a grenade hidden behind the visor on the driver’s side. The soldier shouted, “Grenade!”
“I immediately got man down on the ground, face down, and I remember pressing his face into a sandbag,” Nicholson said.
She continued to hold him down until other soldiers came over and zip-cuffed the man.
I especially liked the part where the pile-of-shit would-be terrorist started crying because he had been bested physically by a woman. There is no stronger argument in favor of allowing women into combat roles than that, in my opinion.
Posted by: Geoff Brown at July 2, 2004 08:08 AMway to go Jessica!! I'm her grandmother!! Pretty good kid/soldier,huh? She'll be home soon--15 months in Iraq was hard for all of us. Hope it will soon be over for all
Posted by: pat darrow at January 14, 2005 09:40 PMPat,
Kudos; it must have been the genes!
And if Jessica's ever in the Twin Cities... :-)
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