Mexican law enforcement with the Beretta ARX 100
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I spent last fall designing a starship captain who could hold her own in the ship and on the surface - the Navigatrix :)
[ Image: A black and white photo of a woman with half of her long black hair shaved off and a band-aid on her cheek. Wearing a sleeveless denim top, she smokes a cigar and rests a rifle on one shoulder.
Russian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, 1941.
By the end of the war she had killed a confirmed 309 Germans - making her the most successful female sniper in history.
Katee Sackhoff talks all-female Expendables
Adi Shankar’s “all-female Expendables” project has been moving gradually closer to fruition, with Katee Sackhoff one of the first names to sign on the dotted line for the forthcoming action fest…
AHHHHHH YES. YES GOOD.
I would watch this so hard, even if it wasn’t any good.
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BLESS
Don’t read the comments.
Cathay Williams - Became the first and the only known female Buffalo Soldier. Enlisting in the US Regular Army 1866 at St. Louis, Missouri for a three year engagement, passing herself off as a man.
She is the first African American female to enlist, and the only documented to serve in the United States Army posing as a man under the pseudonym, William Cathay.
Williams travelled with the 8th Indiana, accompanying the soldiers on their marches through Arkansas, Louisiana, and Georgia. She was present at the Battle of Pea Ridge and the Red River Campaign. At one time she was transferred to Little Rock, where she would have seen uniformed African-American men serving as soldiers, which may have inspired her own interest in military service. Later, Williams was transferred to Washington, D.C., where she served with General Philip Sheridan’s command. When the war ended, Williams was working at Jefferson Barracks.
The exact date of Williams’ death is unknown, but it is assumed she died shortly after being denied a pension, probably sometime in 1892. Her simple grave marker would have been made of wood and deteriorated long ago. Thus her final resting place is now unknown.
