Women in Combat by Lisa M. Bolt Simons

Author:Lisa M. Bolt Simons [Simons, Lisa M. Bolt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 978-1-4914-8488-3; 978-1-4914-8492-0; primary source; history; american; war of 1812
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

Martha McSally

“The plane doesn’t know or care about your gender as a pilot, nor do the ground troops who need your support. You just have to perform. That’s all anyone cares about when you’re up there — that you do your job, and that you do it exceptionally well.”

— Lieutenant Colonel Christine Mau, U.S. Air Force, F-35 fighter pilot

FACT

The first female combat pilot in the world was Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey from the late 1930s.

Vernice Armour originally wanted to be a police officer on horseback. In college she saw a picture of an African-American woman in a flight suit and liked that idea. After working as a corrections officer and police officer, Armour went to flight school. She became the first African-American female combat pilot with the Marine Corps. She flew missions in Iraq in 2003, making her the first female African-American combat pilot in the U.S. military.

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