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Title: Navy SEAL Team 6 Members Fought Female Fighters in Yemen Raid
Post by: mystery-ak on February 04, 2017, 01:06:11 pm
 Military.com | Jan 30, 2017 | by Richard Sisk

Navy SEAL Team 6 fought and killed female fighters of an al-Qaida affiliate in the raid Saturday in Yemen in which a team member was killed, three were wounded and three injured, the Pentagon said Monday.

"There were a lot of female combatants that were a part of this," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said of the firefight in the raid Saturday, which the Defense Department and White House said killed at least 14 enemy fighters. "Some of those enem[ies] killed in action were female."

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