You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

WARRIOR WOMEN
 
 
�       “Mol­ly Pitch­er” is the leg­endary name of either Mary Lud­wig Hays
McCauley  or Mar­garet Hays. The sto­ry is that “Mol­ly” car­ried
pitch­ers of water to Patri­ot troops to cool the canons dur­ing a bat­tle in
the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion.
 
�            Han­na Reitsch was a Ger­man avi­a­tor who was a test pilot for the
Luft­waffe dur­ing World War II. She flew the last Luft­waffe plane out
of Berlin in 1945.
 
�            The Niger­ian Islamist ter­ror­ist group, Boko Haram, is the first
orga­ni­za­tion to use women in a major­i­ty of its sui­cide bomb­ings.
 
�            Deb­o­rah Samp­son Gan­nett fought in com­bat for the Patri­ots dur­ing
the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion under the name Robert Shirtliff. When her
gen­der was revealed, Gan­nett was giv­en an hon­or­able dis­charge.
 
�            North Korea prac­tices “selec­tive con­scrip­tion” for women, which
means if a woman has the skills the mil­i­tary needs, then she real­ly has
no choice but to join.
 
�            In Greek mythol­o­gy, the Ama­zons were a soci­ety of all-female
war­riors and hunters. They only had rela­tions with men to pro­duce
female off­spring; boys were either killed or returned to their fathers.
 
�            Israel requires women as well as men to serve in its mil­i­tary and is
one of the few mil­i­taries where women serve in com­bat roles.
 
�            WAVES is an acronym that stands for Women Accept­ed for
Vol­un­teer Emer­gency Ser­vice. This was a branch of the US Navy
Reserve where women served as offi­cers in non-com­bat roles dur­ing
World War II.
 
�            Major Mar­garet J.  “Hot Lips” Houli­han is one of the best known
fic­tion­al mil­i­tary women. She was a nurse with the rank of major in
the M*A*S*H fran­chise.
 
�            Nor­way and Israel both began allow­ing women in all mil­i­tary units
in 1985. Nor­way became the first NATO coun­try to do so.
 
�            War­rior god­dess­es were not uncom­mon in the ancient world. The
Greek god­dess Athena, the Assyr­i­an god­dess Ishtar, and the Egypt­ian
lioness head­ed god­dess Sekhmet, were all mar­tial deities.
 
�            “Apache” was the name of a mys­te­ri­ous female sniper who fought
for the Viet Cong dur­ing the Viet­nam War. She was killed in 1966 by
Amer­i­can sniper, Car­los Hath­cock.
 
�       Dur­ing World War II, more than 1,000 female snipers fought for the
Red Army. A reg­i­ment of female fight­er pilots also took on the
Luft­waffe.
 
�       Boudi­ca known in Latin chron­i­cles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in
Welsh as Bud­dug, was a queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an
upris­ing against the con­quer­ing forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60
or 61. She per­son­al­ly led bat­tles against the Romans before being
defeat­ed and tak­ing her own life.
 
�            In 2000, women com­prised just 4% of all US mil­i­tary vet­er­ans, but
it’s esti­mat­ed they’ll be 18% in 2040.
 
�            Mari­na Rasko­va was the Red Army’s first com­bat pilot. She was
killed dur­ing the Bat­tle of Stal­in­grad in 1943.
 
�            About a quar­ter of Eritrea’s fight­ers were female dur­ing its War of
Inde­pen­dence (1961–1991) from Ethiopia. Today, young women are
con­script­ed into the Eritre­an mil­i­tary.
 
�       “Axis Sal­ly” was the nick­name for two Amer­i­can women—Mildred
Gillars and Rita Zuc­ca — who broad­cast pro-Axis pro­pa­gan­da dur­ing
World War II. Both women served time in prison for their Axis
activ­i­ties.
 
�            Ulrike Mein­hof was a found­ing mem­ber and the ide­o­log­i­cal brains
behind the 1970s Ger­man left­ist ter­ror­ist group, Red Army
Faction/Baader Mein­hof Group. She died in prison in 1976.
 
�            In 2005, Amer­i­can sol­dier Leigh Ann Hes­ter (deployed to Iraq)
became the first female since World War II to be award­ed the Sil­ver
Star and the first ever to be cit­ed for val­or in close quar­ters com­bat.
 
�            In 1976 the US ser­vice acad­e­mies began admit­ting women and in
1980 the first 54 grad­u­ates entered the mil­i­tary as offi­cers.
 
�       In the con­ser­v­a­tive Islam­ic nation of Iran, women serve in the Basij
vol­un­teer mili­tia. It’s esti­mat­ed that there are 600,000 women com­bat
capa­ble in this force.