Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military and their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front.

Paperback reprint of the original with an added foreword by Mark Thompson. Includes index. Women Soldiers' Stories.

Foreword -- Introduction -- A few good women -- Ooorah on the high seas -- The general -- The cadet -- Doyenne of the depot -- Toy soldiers -- The burn -- Typhoon season -- Double time -- Return to Parris Island -- Brotherhood revisited -- The lieutenant -- Paradise lost -- Nicky the new hat -- Exhaustion -- The fight -- A Christmas farewell -- In the trenches -- Winds of war -- Jedi knight -- Into the desert of death -- Looking back, moving forward -- Three days -- Decision point -- The Purple Heart -- Stars -- The Afghan trimester -- The long road home -- Diva in boots -- The iron major -- Epilogue.