Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 2

Joining Shannon Morgan and Daria Sommers for Episode 2 is Ranie Ruthig. Ranie served alongside Shannon in the 1st Engineer Battalion in Ramadi, Iraq. They recount some of the earliest Lioness missions, how their participation in the Lioness documentary (2008) led to their 2009 testimony on Capitol Hill which contributed to abolishing the Combat Exclusion Policy for women in 2013.
As they explore the second episode of Paramount+'s SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS (The Beating) they comment on its themes: the reality of being a mom like Joe (Zoë Saldana) who deploys, the strains military service puts on families, how single parents like Neil (Dave Annable) cope, the morality of the military's extreme training which Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) must awfully endure, and the tight bonds formed by units that cannot be broken.

Lioness
A feature-length documentary by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers
Trailer - https://bit.ly/44GR6fV
Available for streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video

Presented by the Veterans Breakfast Club - www.veteransbreakfastclub.org