Female Marines lost
Article here.
The women were part of a team of Marines who were assigned to various checkpoints around Fallujah. Female Marines are used at the checkpoints to search Muslim women "in order to be respectful of Iraqi cultural sensitivities," a military statement said. It is considered insulting for a male Marine to search a female Muslim.
Current Pentagon policy prohibits women from serving in front line combat roles - in the infantry, armor or artillery, for example.
More Americans lost to our policy of trying to bend over backwards to accommodate the culture over there, and do minimal physical and psychological damage to Iraqi civilians. Doesn't automatically make it a bad policy. But we are paying a high price for it.