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Female Marines don head scarves in Afghanistan
By creeping
Wow. The latest USMC innovation? Submitting to sharia law.


ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, AP via GMA News

Marines try a woman’s touch submitting to sharia law to reach Afghan hearts
KHAWJA JAMAL, Afghanistan — Put on body armor, check weapons, cover head and shoulders with a scarf.

That was the drill for female American Marines who set out on patrol this week with a mission to make friends with Afghan women in a war zone by showing respect for Muslim standards of modesty.

The all-female unit of 46 Marines is the military’s latest innovation in its rivalry with the Taliban for the populace’s loyalty. Afghan women are viewed as good intelligence sources, and more open to the basics of the military’s hearts-and-minds effort — hygiene, education and an end to the violence.

“It’s part of the effort to show we’re sensitive to local culture,” said Capt. Jennifer Gregoire, of East Strasburg, Pennsylvania. She leads the Female Engagement Team in the Now Zad Valley of Helmand province, the heartland of the Taliban insurgency.

“If you show your hair, its kind of like seeing a nude picture here, because women are very covered up,” she said.

Women are technically barred from combat units in the Marines, and some infantrymen have been surprised to see them in brightly colored head scarves under their helmets, deployed in the most intense combat zones in the country.

“But … I think they understand that what we’re doing is vital to operations and vital to the counterinsurgency program they want to run,” said Gregoire.

Women soldiers were assigned to search women at checkpoints in Iraq, and the experience fed into the Afghan effort, said Cpl. Sarah Furrer, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, who served in both war zones.

“I’m not married and I don’t have children, so they think that’s awkward because I’m 24,” Furrer said of her Iraq experience. But as a result, “we’re not so much afraid of engaging the women” in Afghanistan, she said.

“I’ve found you get great intel from the female population,” said Capt. Zachary Martin, who commands the Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, stationed in Now Zad. “The women don’t want their men out there conducting jihad and getting killed.”

Martin said units have frequently received tips from women about weapons caches or hidden bombs. ~end

From the Marine Corps Prayer:

…Help me to wear my uniform with dignity, and let it remind me daily of the traditions which I must uphold…

It just goes to prove one military motto I learned soon after joining.

"Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome".

Improvise- to learn to do without some things you thought were essential.

Adapt- Your surroundings change. Change with them.

Overcome- Learn to survive when it looks like all is lost.

Sounds pretty smart to me.

The US should get the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq soon .
These two wars are a complete waste of money and lives .
When is the US Administration going to have any common sense at all ?.

Oops..................double posts .

I dont see a problem with it. Head scarves are becoming popular again with women throughout the world.

I dont have a problem with it either

it's respecting local customs