June Moss, 39, maneuvered a Humvee around charred corpses and still smoking shrapnel in Iraq in 2003. The Army driver and mechanic once watched a Black Hawk helicopter mow down insurgents a few hundred yards away. But when she called her father to tell him how tough things were, he didn’t get it. “He was kind of like, ‘Oh, well, you just fix the trucks. You don’t have to worry about nothing,’” she recalls. “I don’t know where people get the idea that women aren’t out there, they don’t see anything, they’re just support.”

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