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    (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier killed in Baghdad last week marked the fourth death of an American female service member this month, a toll that hasn't been topped since June 2005.

    Spc. Kamisha J. Block of Vidor, Texas, died from a "nonbattle-related cause" last week, the military says.

    Eighty-two service women have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Pentagon.

    In 1994 the U.S. military began allowing women to serve in posts other than front-line infantry, special operations and artillery units.

    The highest monthly death toll -- four troops and a Defense Department civilian -- came in June 2005.

    The Thursday death of Spc. Kamisha J. Block, 20, of Vidor, Texas, from a "nonbattle-related cause" was the fifth time that four female service members have been killed in a month, the Pentagon reported. It also happened in October 2003, November 2003, September 2006 and January 2007.

    Block's death came the day after two female soldiers with Multi-National Division-Baghdad -- Sgt. Princess C. Samuels, 22, of Mitchellville, Maryland, and Spc. Zandra T. Walker, 28, of Greenville, South Carolina -- were killed by indirect gunfire during combat operations in Taji.

    The first death of a female soldier this month came August 9. Sgt. Alicia A. Birchett, 29, a Multi-National Division-Baghdad soldier from Mashpee, Massachusetts, died in "noncombat-related circumstances," according to the U.S. military.

    Sixteen female service members have died in Iraq this year, which puts 2007 on track to top the previous record of 20, set in 2005. Death tolls in other years are 12 in 2003, 19 in 2004 and 15 in 2006

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    September 7, 2016 - "World War II pilot Elaine Harmon, who died last year at the age of 95, wanted to be laid to rest with her fellow veterans at Arlington National Cemetery.

    And on Wednesday, Harmon's wish was fulfilled — thanks to a dedicated effort by her family and a law passed by Congress.

    Harmon was one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, a group of female pilots who flew military planes in noncombat missions in order to free up male pilots for fighting.

    In fact, 38 WASPs died serving their country. But as NPR's Susan Stamberg has reported, they were regarded as civilians. They paid for their own pilot training. The military was not required to pay for funerals, or even just for remains to be sent home. And when the war was winding down, the WASPs were dismissed and their jobs were given back to male military pilots.

    The WASPs had been promised they'd receive military status, but during the war, they never did."





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