Marine Capt. Stacy Blackburn-Hoelscher and her all-female team in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade have a unique mission: Reaching out to the women of Afghanistan. (CBS)
Marine Team Military Formed Last Summer Tasked to Gain Intelligence From Afghanistan's Female Population
Marine Capt. Stacy Blackburn-Hoelscher and her all-female team in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade have a unique mission: Reaching out to the women of Afghanistan.
"We're the first ever that's actually been able to tap into that population," Blackburn-Hoelscher told CBS News Correspondent Mandy Clark. "This culture is pretty sensitive about men talking to their women."...>>>>>
Women of the U.S. Marines are on a special mission to win over the hearts and minds of Afghan women. As Mandy Clark reports, these links with Afghan women are essential.
These are the type of good works, with intelligence gathering as only a small part of, after ground is already lost by invasion, death, destruction and occupation, that can help in securing stability within an occupied country. But as soon as a war atrocity or perceived by those living there as an atrocity all that good will and help is almost totally lost making it harder and harder to start over in winning the Hearts and Minds of a population that mostly will support those trying to rid it's country of the forces occupying it and the support grows.
It would be a much different World today if after 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, seeking out the criminal leaders and their bands, the military forces had stayed in that country, the western countries had kept their promises of help in rebuilding and similar connections were made with the population of innocent beings. Instead of quickly seeking out to destroy another country and it's people and leaving this one to fester and grow it's hatreds from occupation!
Wounded warrior women come together
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