Thank you! :) They didn't claim to be anything, they just flew together. Public affairs wrote the article and put it on the wire, not the crew. The crew only thought they were the first all-female TACTICAL AIRLIFT crew to fly into combat. It's difficult on the C-130 because of the 5 crew positions required to fly the mission. Some squadrons don't even have ONE female in certain positions, let alone enough to make up a crew. The real focus is the MISSION, and those Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, and supplies going uprange...on something other than the dreaded convoy.
12/08/2005 4:16:52 PM PST
· 65 of 71 Proud2Srv
to Robert A. Cook, PE
Actually, only HALF of the flight deck crew were wearing 'shoulder purses'. The flight engineer and navigator were strapped at the hip. And believe me, ALL six of those Crew Dawgs were ready to rock, from the shoulder OR from the hip.