In 2004, after U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan moved to profession and containment, the hazard to military workers likewise moved– from traditional military engagements to a boost in suicide battles. At the time, Marines utilized checkpoints throughout Iraq to evaluate for weapons and contraband; practice, nevertheless, determined that females were not browsed by male soldiers unless a woman existed, leading insurgents to utilize females for smuggling and suicide battle– therefore leading the Marine Corps to reevaluate checkpoint practices or, as a USMC report later on explained the undertaking, adjust to “get rid of the Middle Eastern cultural gender level of sensitivities by using ladies Marines to engage with the Iraqi and Afghan female populations.” The outcome was the Lioness Program, which connected “Lioness and Female Engagement Teams to ground battle systems” to much better safe checkpoints.
Taylor Sheridan’s most current drama series, Unique Ops: Lionesspremiering this weekend on Paramount+, spins the Lioness Program forward into an alternative timeline where the scope of operations broadened from search and seizure to espionage and assassination. (The real-life Lioness Program likewise broadened, though in other locations, consisting of “running medical centers, dispersing medication and humanitarian help, and conference in Afghan houses.”)
While the real-life program never ever consisted of such cape and dagger delights, tv is its own historic animal– and eliminating terrorists to avoid future 9/11s plainly produced a much better pitch than frisking civilians for hours at a checkpoint. (Though, we’re sure the latter,