The U.S. casualty numbers in this war totaled 135 members. Five of those members were women. Two women were POWs in Iraqi camps. The jobs of combat and non-combat are no longer black and white. Another source mentions that 21 women were killed during the Persian Gulf War.
Women have physiological advantages over men when it comes to flying.
Women are shorter than men are, and it's this height difference that enables women to sustain G-tolerances better. The same arguments against an inter-raced military from the 1960s are being used today, but applied to women instead of blacks. Linda L. Bray, commanded a platoon that engaged Panamanian soldiers in a firefight at an attack-dog compound near Panama City. Two female helicopter pilots came under heavy fire while airlifting troops. Lt. Lisa Kutschera and CWO Debra Mann both have been nominated for the Air Medal, the first women so honored.