One for each theater...

Army Spc., Monica Lin Brown, 19 of Texas, becomes the second female to be awarded the Silver Star for bravery in combat since WWII, in Afghanistan. Looky. The first awarded during the current conflict was Sgt.Leigh Ann Hester in Iraq, 2005. So there you have it.

The combat landscape of the 21st century requires women to take fire, and they perform as they have been trained. Hester and her unit took two KIA in an insurgent ambush in Iraq. Brown helped pull five members of her unit 500 yards to safety and treated them under direct fire after an IED attack. Valor is Valor.