Holding her own:
First female on Boston's version of a SWAT team rises to challenge
When the team of elite Boston police officers burst from the back of the big, black van, wearing heavy, bullet-resistant vests, helmets, face masks, and goggles, it was impossible to tell one team member from another. Inching in a line toward the brick housing development, crouching behind ballistic shields as they passed a decrepit pink couch, the officers moved in silent, seamless cohesion, like one many-legged creature, toward an unknown danger in an upstairs apartment.

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