{"id":102239,"date":"2020-07-13T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102239"},"modified":"2020-07-13T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:03:17","slug":"another-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102239","title":{"rendered":"Another First"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Student Naval Aviator Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle, assigned to the Redhawks of Training Squadron 21 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, stands by a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft following her final flight to complete the undergraduate Tactical Air (Strike) pilot training syllabus July 7. Swegle is the Navy’s first known Black female strike aviator and will receive her gold wings during a ceremony July 31. (Lt. j.g. Luke Redito\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Navy Times has provided a press release regarding the Navy’s first black woman fighter jet pilot, Madeleine Swegle.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/07\/10\/this-officer-is-the-navys-first-known-black-female-tactical-jet-pilot\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Navy said Swegle completed the undergraduate Tactical Air (Strike) pilot training syllabus Tuesday, paving the way for her to fly aircraft like the F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet, the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter or the EA-18G Growler.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBZ to Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle on completing the Tactical Air (Strike) aviator syllabus,\u201d Naval Air Training tweeted Thursday. \u201cSwegle is the @USNavy\u2019s first known Black female TACAIR pilot and will receive her Wings of Gold later this month. HOOYAH!\u201d<\/div>\n
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Lt. Cmdr. Brenda Robinson, whose call sign was \u201cRaven,\u201d made history in 1980 as the first Black female graduate from Aviation Officer Candidate School and a year later became the first Black woman certified for C-1A carrier onboard delivery carrier landings.<\/div>\n
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Robinson continued to be a trailblazer during her Navy career when she also became the first Black female flight instructor, evaluator, and VIP transport pilot in the Navy,\u00a0according to Women in Aviation International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Capt. Vernice \u201cFlyGirl\u201d Armour became the first Black female pilot in the Marine Corps and the first Black female combat pilot in the entire U.S. military. She earned her wings in 2001 and was subsequently stationed at Camp Pendleton in California with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169,\u00a0according to a Marine Corps news release<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0– article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

There is a discussion in the article about the dirth of Black pilots of either sex in the Navy. However, it seems a bit lame to emphasize that instead of acknowledging the difficulty of learning to fly an aviation vehicle that is touchier than a rabid skunk and twice as likely to kill you as not. You can either handle the job, or you can’t.<\/div>\n
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Flying a glider is a hoot, because you can tell how much it loves the air, as some planes do, but it is nothing remotely close to flying a touchy, bad-tempered, stubby-winged fighter\u00a0 jet.\u00a0 Calling attention to the pilot’s physical characteristics instead of emphasizing the accomplishment of becoming someone who can handle that kind of machine as if it were a pit bull with obedience training is ridiculous.\u00a0 I do not envy the men or women who fly those snarling, howling machines, because they are targets from the first moment they take off. But I will always willingly recognize the necessity of their accomplishments, because without them in the cockpits, we are almost easy prey.<\/div>\n
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So “booyah!” to LTJG Swegle, and may she live long and prosper as a Navy pilot.<\/div>\n
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