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like many service members ? Private

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Emily Harrison just needed to pay off

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her college loan and found herself in a

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new world two years ago . What I think

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like I'd be doing it wouldn't be

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working around weapons . I don't know .

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It's it's definitely a tough job for a

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female , tough job for anyone stepping

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up is what Harrison believes she

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learned from the woman . She's looked

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up to her whole life , her own mother .

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And she is grateful to women like her

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mother who paved the way for her to

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become a better soldier . I'm doing it ,

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tough job . I leave the wire , I move

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things manual labor and stuff . If we

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didn't have women's rights or you know ,

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something like that , I couldn't

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couldn't be here . You know , So I

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think I benefited from that just by

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being able to be in the army and as

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Williams Equality Day and another year

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when its achievements past young women

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like private Harrison will continue to

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benefit from their predecessors . Army

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Sergeant Daniel Washington , Kabul

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Afghanistan , mm