Woman Veteran

So I was driving this evening and stopped behind this SUV at a red light:




The first thing that caught my eye was the SemperFi and Marines bumper stickers, but I soon realized that this person was proud to be a woman veteran.

My next thought was that I was also a woman veteran, as is anyone who's ever survived a relationship with a woman. The problem here, ultimately, is that this proclamation is entirely incorrect as both "woman" and "veteran" are nouns, and what they really want is an adjective to modify "veteran". That adjective is "female", as in "proud to be a female veteran."

Perhaps it's no coincidence that this person with her poor grammar was a Bush supporter.