Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Brookings Institution): Well, you give a very good statistic, that women are about 10 percent of the force, so maybe two to three percent of the number of fatalities, with 71 having given their lives in this mission, and so that gives you some rough sense right there of the relative danger of the jobs they are doing.

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