Posted on 06/16/2005 3:00:04 PM PDT by Racehorse
Normally I'd say a quota or social engineering was taking place but not here. All of those pilots lives are on the line so she wouldn't be there if she wasn't damn well qualified.
More power to her!
BUMP
Forty-three posts and still no cellphone joke?
What would that have to do with this capable young woman flying with the Thunderbirds?
It has to do with your opinion to put women into combat. You might understand what it is like to be a POW and tortured.
YAHOOO!!!!
That's great news!
Dasher ain't the only acro chick PING!
I never said women should be put into combat. For your information I do not believe women should be in combat. With that said...What I said was: "she is capable and able" and therefore has been chosen to become a member of the Thunderbirds. She had to compete for that job didn't she? Did someone make her apply? I'm thinking it was something she really wanted to do and decided to go for it.
That was my favorite line said to me by an F18 driver.
There goes Another Empty Kitchen !!!
LOL!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
It'll take a few hours to get the smile from my face.
After the week I've had - this is welcome news.
Sorry, misunderstanding then.
Waaaaahhhhhhh, shipmate!
Cool...I watch them practice from where I work. Nellis is only about 10 minutes from where I work.
Righto why are we wasting money training people who are not going to be able to use that training to any use for the good of the country? A waste of tax dollars and a waste of time.
It has.
Women aviators soar to new heights
Scroll down, mid-page.
The 376th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron flew an all female KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling mission over Afghanistan on January 31.The crew, pictured at left, starting from the lower left and moving clockwise, was 1st Lieutenant Alison, navigator, Capt. Heather, pilot and aircraft commander, Capt. Waynetta, co-pilot, and Senior Airman Lyndi, boom operator. Between the four of them, they total almost 4,000 flying hours. The event marked the first all-female crew to fly an air refueling mission into Afghanistan from Ganci.
Well, I met the first female TR-1 pilot and the first Space Shuttle member (anybody remember Sally Ride?)
It was almost inevitable that the Blues or the T-Birds were going to get a female member since they draw them from the active duty ranks.
They stay at the Silver Legacy, maybe I'll meet her in an elevator...LOL!!
Of course, we remember Sally Ride.
Eileen Collins is also awesome!
My friend wrote a book called, "She's just another Navy Pilot"
SNIP--->When the USS Abraham Lincoln left San Diego in April 1995 for a six-month deployment in the Persian Gulf, it was the first Pacific Fleet ship to go to sea with female combat pilots. This is the story of one of those pilots, Loree Hirschman, a twenty-seven-year-old navy lieutenant and the only female pilot in the carrier's S-3B Viking antisubmarine warfare squadron. She describes the historic cruise with rare candor and balance.
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