Female Engagement Team (Fet / Usmc) Poem by Luke Easter

So, what do you call a fearless bunch of female Marines?
These soldiers are the, FET, Female Engagement Team,
1st Battalion 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team II,
They don’t do equal they accomplish more than men do.

Hold your horses or in this case, slow down your tanks,
Women soldiers are more effective, what do you think?
Who is always able to get more cooperation than man?
48 gals working the volatile front lines in Afghanistan.

Sergeant. Sheena Adams chews bubble gum while on patrol,
Hearing of a soldier’s death a translator has come to know,
In comfort to her crying about the death of a fellow Marine,
This photo a constant reminder of heartfelt recurring scene.

Can’t be something trained or rehearsed whatever she says,
Then we have the smile holding two babies by Luz Lopez,
A Lance Corporal assisting in a village medical outreach,
And a welcomed break from patrolling the deadly streets.

These women who volunteer for the assignment participate,
10 weeks in Camp Pendleton, Ooh-Rah, its not second rate,
Anything attached by the tradition in the name U.S. Marine,
Is an advanced technological piece of a well-oiled machine.

Both Riane Donoho and Lance Corporal Kristi Baker are 21,
Corpsman Shannon Crowley’s 22 but when all is said & done,
Include Master Sgt Cherelle Peters-Williams it’s not too hard,
To see their dedication now add Corporal Catherine Broussard.

Here we have a list, several of the randomly dedicated names,
Intense by the seriousness, not computer generated war games,
Now, only back home not here they’ll breathe their last breath,
Patriots like Corpsman Amy Housley patches up life not death.

Guns, daughters, sisters, mothers & some lucky guy’s girlfriend,
Not the make-up of Cover Girl but one the military would send,
Now another sun WIll arise in Boldoc, at the Helmand Province,
Defending others rights in a foreign land where it makes no sense.

Miriam, Rachel, Rebecca, Deborah, Ester, Ruth, include Jael,
Mother Mary & Sarah also that Samaritan woman at the well,
Leader of a group of prominent women was Mary Magdalene,
On the battlefield thousands of years ago this did not just begin.

Pictures tell how they like to ham it up by the way they pose,
Surely, no matter the country or uniform a rose is still a rose,
These roses uniquely wear combat make-up dressed in fatigues,
FET of The U.S.M.C., proudly serves wherever there is a need.