Army Bates On December 31, , a Mortar Platoon, while attempting to register a mortar at a grid fired a registration round at a home. The round went through the roof the house and detonated inside the home, killing one civilian male and resulting in minor injury to one civilian female. The soldier who fired the round acknowledged that he deviated from the Rules of Engagement but that it was a tactical choice. An Army investigation ensued. The investigation itself and the results are redacted.

Anna Crossley served in Afghanistan in 2012 as a Female Engagement Officer.
"I was hot, dirty and dressed like a man..."
The ground shook and the window rattled. I lay there and sweated and swore. The voice from the loudspeaker urged me to get away from the windows. I was inside a tin can.
How the army separates its men and women.
I signed up for the army in June , when I was They were offering to pay for some of my college education. I wasn't concerned about the possibility of going to war; I just kept thinking, This is going to be cool. Two years later, I was a sophomore at the University of Illinois in Urbana, and I got a phone call from my platoon sergeant, who said, "Your unit has been put on alert. I didn't say anything about the phone call. I quit my part-time job at David's Bridal shop and boxed up the clothes in my dorm.
Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war. An all-American heroine, the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. It couldn't have happened at a more crucial moment, when the talk was of coalition forces bogged down, of a victory too slow in coming. Her rescue will go down as one of the most stunning pieces of news management yet conceived.