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SHE WAS young, bright, smiling, articulate and in her element. Outside the tented field hospital, Ona Calvert from Paisley, a captain in the British army's Medical Corps, was eager to show off the equipment she had been given to work with and the calibre of the soldiers under her control.
Just beyond the perimeter fence in the distance, the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra could be glimpsed through the haze.See the full content of this document
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Women at War
"We are the combat medics who go out to give medical support to the troops if they get injured while out on patrol," she said. "Men and women, we do all the same jobs and we wouldn't have it any other way."
The romantic notion of red-crossed ambulances dashing out to give emergency aid, facing an enemy who would not fire on medics on humanitarian grounds is long gone in 21st-century warfare.The combat paramedics are armed and...See the full content of this document
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