Green grass
Madeleine tells me what she thinks. To be honest, I ask her (and Eitan) to pose so often that she has a canned-response and the sillier the better. I mis-time the neighborhood birthday party at the the lawn and tennis club giving us an hour outside and so here we are on the nearby common. We play tag and home-base and sample the early spring. Classmates Alex and Sue turn five.
Brit gals in the armed forces:
- 17,000 women in the UK armed forces
- 9.1% of total
- 1% of combat soldiers
- 11.2% are officers
- 8,270 are in the British Army
- 1,191 are on 55 war-ships
- 12.3% of Royal Air Force
- 2 are brigadiers, the highest rank held by women in the Army
- 2 killed in Iraq since 2003
- 96% of jobs in the RAF open to women
