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Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief moderated his stance to get the job but is now pushing for change in the name of high standards.
Women's equality is celebrated in the Fighter Squadron, where pilots' capabilities, not their gender, define them. The mission-first mindset highlights that anyone qualified can serve.
On just her second sortie in April 1942, she proved her worth, downing a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber and a Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter, thus becoming the first female pilot to shoot down an ...
In 1993, Leavitt became the first woman to serve as a fighter pilot in the U.S. military when she graduated from flight training and began flying the F-15E Strike Eagle. During her 31 years in ...
The problem is a bigger challenge for a growing segment of Air Force flight crews — the 118 female fighter pilots in jets such as the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor, F-35 ...
Sub Lieutenant Astha Poonia has become the first woman to enter the fighter pilot stream of the Indian Navy. She may fly the MiG-29K one day. Women are already serving as pilots and officers in ...
When Defense Secretary Les Aspin ordered the services to drop restrictions on women flying combat missions in 1993, she became the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot.
Sub Lieutenant Astha Poonia has become the first woman to be trained as a fighter pilot of the Indian Navy. She may eventually fly the MiG-29K or the naval version of the Rafale fighter jet off ...
Mariam Al Mansouri, the first Emirati female fighter jet pilot prepare to take off on June 13, 2013 in United Arab Emirates. Born in Abu Dhabi, Mansouri is one of eight children.
Women in the military have been removed from the Department of Defense and Arlington Memorial Cemetery's websites: why this is happening and how it can be reversed. Post by Linda Robinson March 27 ...
FILE - The Tuskegee Airmen Way street sign is briefly displayed in front of a 1943 North American T6 Texan aircraft used to train pilots during WWII, at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base, in ...