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On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings MJ Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour 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 serve on the front lines the credit they deserve...
After being commissioned into the U.S. 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, flying combat search-and-rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device.
But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge--to eliminate the militarys Ground Combat Exclusion Policy, which kept female armed service members from officially serving in combat roles despite their long-standing record of doing so with honor.
InShoot Like a Girl, MJ takes the reader on a dramatic journey through her military career: an inspiring, humorous, and thrilling true story of a brave, high-spirited, and unforgettable woman who has spent much of her life ready to sacrifice everything for her country, her fellow man, and her sense of justice.
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Published by Berkley
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Copyright 2017 by Mary Jennings Hegar
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hegar, Mary Jennings.
Title: Shoot like a girl: one womans dramatic fight in Afghanistan
and on the home front/Mary Jennings Hegar.
Other titles: One womans dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front
Description: New York, New York: New American Library, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047084 (print) | LCCN 2016002854 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781101988435 | ISBN 9781101988459 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hegar, Mary Jennings. | Afghan War, 2001Personal
narratives. | United StatesAir National GuardBiography. | Helicopter
pilotsUnited StatesBiography. | United States. Air ForceWomenBiography.
| United States. Air ForceWomenCrimes against. | Sex discrimination
against womenUnited StatesHistory21st century. | Sexual harassment in
the militaryUnited States. | Afghan War, 2001Search-and-rescue operations
United States. | United States. Air ForceSearch-and-rescue operationsAfghanistan.
Classification: LCC DS371.43.H44 A3 2016 (print) | LCC DS371.43.H44 (ebook) |
DDC 958.104/748dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047084
First Edition: March 2017
Jacket photographs: author on front cover by Jeff Wilson Photography; Kandahar Mountains by Paul Bris/Getty Images
Jacket design by Emily Osborne
Penguin is committed to publishing works of quality and integrity. In that spirit, we are proud to offer this book to our readers; however the story, the experiences and the words are the authors alone.
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To my soul mate and the love of my life, Brandon.
Weve each had our disasters and triumphs,
and theyve made us who we are today.
I wouldnt have it any other way.
Im so happy I found you, and I cant wait to see whats next.
Thanks for killing all of my spiders
but still pretending Im the brave one.
Youre so much more than I deserve.
For Jude and Daniel...
I love you big as the sky, and all your little bones.
Mommy loves you all the way to the moon and back again.
It has been incredibly difficult to recount some of the events in this book. Many of them are hard enough to talk about with a close friend, let alone write about for anyone and everyone to read. Im putting it all out there for the world to see, and its terrifying. But many people dont know what Air Force Rescue does or that the Air Force even has helicopters. Many people dont know about the enormous contribution of the Air National Guard. Many dont think that there are women serving in combat roles. Others think that the women who do serve in combat shrink in fear when the bullets fly. I know differently, and I wanted you to know, too.
That said, there are security concerns associated with sharing the real names of some individuals still serving. On a couple of occasions, there are some who are perhaps not painted in the best light. For these reasons, some of the names have been changed. None of the stories have been dramatized, and the Department of Defense has redacted a few key names and words (covered in black throughout the book). None of the stories have been dramatized, all of the accounts have been scrutinized by the Department of Defense for classified information, and they are relayed here exactly as I remember them. Most of these stories have been vetted by others who were there to ensure accuracy, but people do tend to remember some of the details differently. There were heroic feats of valor and questionable decisions throughout, but for the most part, we all did the best we could with the information we had in the fog of war. Without Monday morning quarterbacking, what follows is my best attempt to tell our story as seen through my eyes and validated by my comrades-in-arms.
Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger
far from the comfort
and the well-lit avenues of life.
Pit your every soul against the unknown
and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.
Experience cold, hunger, heat and thirst
and survive to see
another challenge
and another dawn.
Only then will you be at peace
with yourself
and be able to know and to say,
I look down the farthest side of the mountain,
fulfilled and understanding all,
and truly content that
I lived a full life and one
that was my own choice.
JAMES ELROY FLECKER,
FROM THE POEM PLAY HASSAN
I glanced out the window at the dark shadows of sharks just under the surface of the sea. Shaking my head, I willed myself to focus on the task at hand as I continued running through the checklist: checking my equipment, reviewing where the emergency release was on the door, miming unbuckling the seat harness and unplugging my comm cord, checking to make sure that the tiny oxygen bottle on my vest was charged and on. The bottle would provide about thirty seconds of air if we found ourselves plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. I was well aware of what to expect if we should have to ditch, as I had attended the thorough dunker training in Alabama, where you were strapped into a mock helicopter, shaken, plummeted into a pool, and flipped upside down. But out here in the ocean, there were no instructors standing ready to save you if you went under. There were no sharks in dunker training.
My summer had been filled with exciting missions: putting out wildfires in California, marijuana eradication from the vast national forests out west, and deploying to Texas for hurricane support. But my least favorite kind of mission would be the grand finale to that exhausting summer: a long-range overwater rescue mission. A fisherman on a freighter way out in the middle of the Pacific had been injured, so my crew and I had been dispatched to go pick him up and bring him to safety.
Years earlier, during my first assignment in the Air Force, I remember clearly sitting in a movie theater watching
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