Women In Uniform

[Akim]

thanks mate...

never knew this...
you were hunting for beautiful gals in Army... i got a large database of US in Army and Marine core... i was thinking of their security in Afghan.. i can posts of them, if you wanted revenge what US did you back when you were in USSR... i'll post thei Regiment if you want!!!!

Apparently for us with you different presentations. In our countries (Russia, Ukraine), woman it is simple mother and faithful friend, but not object of sexual solicitations. For us a woman knows the advantage and never for us will send a woman on risky job. War - is masculine employment and woman in a form, must to be an exception from rules, than one of components. Therefore a woman in a form must be beautiful. The Russian writer Dostoevsky once said "Beauty - will rescue the world"!

 

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[Akim]

Military oath

 

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OMG!

 

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Italian army - ISAF mission - Afghanistan

 

[Zebra]

ISRAELI soldiers evacuate young settler women from the the Havat Gilad outpost west of Nablus in the West Bank. (Picture: AFP)

Colombian soldiers, aka the women of steel, take part in an Independence Day parade in Colombia. (Picture: AFP)

SOLDIERS from the Democratic Republic of Congo army march during a ceremony to mark the signing of a post-war constitution at the presidential palace in the capital Kinshasa in 2006. (Picture: Reuters)

A US SENIOR Airman pulls weapon pins off an F-16 Fighting Falcon prior to its takeoff for a mission at a forward-deployed location in Asia.

 

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A MEMBER of China's first batch of women fighter pilots salutes from her aircraft. (Picture: AFP)

AN AUSTRALIAN soldier plays ball with East Timorese boys in Dili. (Picture: AFP)

AN ISRAELI army soldier, with her face covered by mud, watches during a week-long survival course for women in the infantry at an undisclosed location in Israel. (Picture: Reuters)

AN ISRAELI soldier shouts during a week-long survival course for women in the infantry at an undisclosed location. (Picture: Reuters)

 

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A TEAR rolls down the cheek of an Israeli soldier as she mourns the death of a colleague in 2006. (Picture: AFP)

A VIETAMESE soldier looks up while others watch a program marking World Environment Day in Hanoi. (Picture: Reuters)

 

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A NORTH Korean soldier looks out from behind a barbed-wire fence around a camp on the North Korean river banks across from Heko. (Picture: AP)

A POLICE officer aims with her pistol at a shooting range, during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, 80km south of Baghdad, Iraq. (Picture: AP)

TOWNSVILLE-BASED Black Hawk pilot Ivana Gorlan. (Picture: Anna Rogers)

 

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FLIGHT Lieutenant Daphne and Lieutenant Anneke Kerklaan compare the tools of their respective trades in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Picture: ADF)

AN ISRAELI soldier paints the face of a comrade with mud prior to a week-long survival course for women in the infantry at an undisclosed location in Israel.
(Picture: Reuters)

ISRAELI soldiers train to be infantry instructors during a training exercise just outside Beersheba in southern Israel. (Picture: AP)

 

[Zebra]

On Patrol with UN Female Indian Police unit...

On Patrol with UN Female Indian Police unit...

UN Photo/Christopher Herwig

In the backseat of a United Nations Police vehicle, a young Indian woman in a blue camouflage police uniform has her long black hair tucked inside a blue beret and a pistol strapped to her waist.
On the dark streets of Monrovia, still without street lights seven years out of war, Rewti Arjunan patrols some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. She's serving in one of the world's only all-female police units deployed to a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The 28 year old flew to West Africa with this landmark deployment of a 100% female police unit just five days after a traditional wedding ceremony in India. This story is fascinating because it raises questions about traditional gender roles in both India and Liberia, and the symbolism to Liberian women of strong, authoritative women. But it also raises questions about whether female peacekeepers do their jobs any differently. Are they softer? Do they negotiate rather than strong-arm? Or do they "act like men" to do the job? This plays out against the dichotomy of gender advancements in Liberia - it's the first African country to elect a female president, but the realities on the ground for the rest of the female population is dismal. Rape is rampant. Most women are illiterate, but forced to be the bread winners for their families. And in this patriarchal society, women do what their husbands tell them - whatever that might be. One woman told me, "If my husband says lie down, I will beat you all day. I will lie down."

Going on patrol with the Indian Female Police unit was for a documentary for CBC Radio's Dispatches.

Bonnie Allen | From the Field

The all-female Indian police unit serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia in training/ (Photo credit: UN News Centre)

photo: UN policewoman Rewti Arjunan teaches unarmed combat to teenagers while off-duty.

CBC DISPATCHES:

The west African state of Liberia is rebuilding after a protracted civil war, and a special unit of UN peacekeepers is there to see that it does.

Liberia is another of the UN's largest deployments, and embedded in it is a police unit most others don't have.

It is entirely female, and it says it brings something to the dangerous game of peacekeeping that men just can't, as we hear from Canadian journalist Bonnie Allen.

 

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