I have no problem with a woman firing guns and killing, nor do I have a problem with a woman going through pain to fight. I've seen it real time. And there's a time and a place for everything.
But there are some truths you seem to be disregarding. One is she is a human being first, woman second. The media are socialists, and one of the socialists causes is women in combat. News sources lie; you know this. I has been proven again and again, but they lie, usually not outright, but by untrue innuendo and misdirection.
Just this is reason enough to be skeptical of such a heroric story. If it was indeed indeed heroric, I salute her even though there are more appropriate ways for a woman to serve her country. I would like hear the battlefield intelligence that came from monitored communications, and a more current assessed of that Iraqi source. Wouldn't you, to be a fair judge?
Remember, this is the Washington Post. Every phoneme out of that source should be treated with cynicism. 