GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12715 posts, RR: 80 Posted (5 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 4055 times:
The increased integration of women into the armed forces, (where the UK was some way behind the US to be honest), has made this significant award for combat operations inevitable.
But still, it's an important milestone and very well deserved, better yet, it was not posthumous, as some of the large number of awards made today sadly were; http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...irstWomanToReceiveRafTopHonour.htm