Being the Only One

If you served in a unit where you were one of only a handful of women, you may know a particular kind of loneliness — not from lacking camaraderie, but from carrying an experience that few around you shared. That aloneness doesn't disappear at discharge.

If you were often one of few women in your unit or role, what did that require of you? What do you wish someone had understood?

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