It's 2 a.m. in the pitch dark of early morning on April 14, 2010, when four female Marines reach Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district of Helmand—a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, now tenuously calm. After an exhausting five-day journey flying from California's Camp Pendleton, the women have finally reached their home for the next six months. They're the first group of women ever to be stationed in Nawa.
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