Shoot Like A Girl - One Woman's Dramatic Fight In Afghanistan And On The Home Front

Mary Jennings Hegar

BERKLEY

2017

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9781101988442

"A stirring story of bravery that also captures our humanity." - Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, New York Times bestselling author of Ashley's War.

On July 29, 2009, Major Mary Jennings Hegar was shot down while on a medevac mission in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who served on the front lines the credit they deserve...

After being commissioned into the US Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device.

But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge - to eliminate the Ground Combat Exclusion Policy, which kept women from officially serving in combat roles despite their long-standing record of doing so with honor.

Shoot Like A Girl tells the inspiring, humorous, and thrilling true story of a woman who has spent much of her life ready to sacrifice everything for her country - and her sense of justice.