the first woman to die in combat was from grainville, south carolina. she was a helicopter pilot. she was a young white woman. the second one to die in combat, to my knowledge, was a young black female, also from south carolina and a citadel graduate. if i'm wrong, my research fails me. but that's what i read in the past few days looking at different things in the history of our state. there was times where our country never would have sent -- i have a theory that i won't get into today, but i think that if you did it properly, a regiment of females with four companies would be the most deadly thing you could send into the enemy. i might talk about it to some of you individually about my theory on that later. but they have a tendency to not all be united at times. and if you -- if you had them on one, two three and four companies and sent one on them on point the first week one the second week one the third week and once the fourth week if you timed that properly you would have a fighting force that i certainly wouldn't want to have to face. because it would be a deadly fighting f