“For UAE, we had about 15% of our task force that was there were female. We had female pilots, female crew chiefs, and even fuel handlers, mechanics. And UAE, they really didn’t have a problem working with them or having them in and around the working environments. Now, in Saudi Arabia, I remember in one of the planning conferences, the big question they were always asking was, ‘How many females do you have? And what are their job roles, or duty titles?’ Some of them were saying, they wanted to know specifically how many female pilots were part of the task force. The task forces were similar in size between UAE and Saudi Arabia. So about 15% was, I think we had 25 out of 160 or so, females in Saudi Arabia and again, filling the multitude of roles.<br><br>”I think they kind of put up, in Saudi Arabia, they put up more of a front… They were upfront about it. Maybe it was more inquisitive, not, ‘Oh, they can’t do this. They can’t do that.’ I think it was just more inquisitive because they were going to get asked from their higher-ups. So they wanted to be able to have the answer. But actually when the exercise was executing, [I] didn’t see any issue. The only thing, that when they were doing physical training, or anything like that, running around the flight line, was just having the legs covered, was about the only thing in Saudi Arabia. UAE, the females could go out running in just normal PT attire; shorts and the PT shirt. So they really didn’t have any restrictions or limitations for the females to go out and exercise. So you more saw it in Saudi Arabia, that was the only thing that they really wanted, was just covering up the arms and the legs.”