Lol @ the guys in my mentions every time I talk about women in SOF saying women shouldn’t be in SOF except I would like to remind you all THAT WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN SOF.

Anyway here is Virginia Hall getting a medal from “Wild” Bill Donovan.
And lest we forget the first American woman to lead a combat raid was Harriet Tubman, who was running UW Ops before they had a name.
A command I used to work at had a lantern in its logo, emblematic of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.

Except a teenaged girl (from New York!) named Sybil Ludington rode twice as far, for twice as long, through the cold and rainy April night.
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