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From the president of the Vietnam EOD Vets Association:

"Sir: To the best of my knowledge, there were no women in EOD until sometime in 75! I have never heard of any woman serving as EOD while in Vietnam!

Dusty"

It appears that the Stolen Valor Effect includes ladies now...

Despite your private emails and public posts on an unrelated thread, I'm going to attempt to reply to you as politely as possible.

During my active duty USAF years, 1977-1986, I worked with and associated with many Vietnam war veterans, both combat and those simply combat era.
Not a lot of “Stolen Valor” attempts were going on during those years.
I met my friend Sue in 1982. At that time she was the “dependent spouse” of an active duty USAF TSgt.
I saw photos of her in uniform, numerous scars on her body, and had no reason to doubt any of her “war stories”, because she didn't talk about it often, and I knew by then not to ask ANY combat vet for more details than they cared to freely offer.
My dependent husband (former USAF) drove her on two occasions to the nearest VA hospital for treatment, bypassing the base hospital.
She was the correct age, her conversations with me, as an active duty USAF NCO neighbor in base housing, and her general attitude and demeanor added up to the point that I accepted her consistent “war stories”.

I wouldn't call her a “lady” in same sarcastic way your snarky little comments have added up at this point.

I am, however, extremely familiar with the attitude.

My mother actually owned combat boots during the Korean war.
Both she and my father both wore them on active duty in the USAF in Greenland, where they met. He was an MP, she was a radio operator. Neither called themselves combat veterans.

I am not a combat veteran.I've also never claimed to be a combat veteran.
But I am a military veteran.From a family with a long history of proud military service.

You sir, may take your little hissy fit games elsewhere.

I have now reached the upper limits of my ability to be polite.