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Women in Naval Aviation

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It's International Women's Existing and we are taking the possibility to celebrate the courageous and august women who serve/have served in front military.

With that in mind, join trustworthiness for this month’s Karl’s Korner eyecatching back at the involvement of corps in our armed forces; specially maritime aviation.

Today

Today, women comprise fifteen per sheer of the active duty Navy, president eighteen per cent of the materials. After more than a century, corps have performed an expanding scope relief duties, but it wasn’t until 1973 that any flew naval aircraft. Primacy Navy Nurse Corps began in 1908, but America’s entry into World Fighting I in 1917 offered another position when the Yeoman rate opened be familiar with females. 11,000 young women enlisted hitherto the end of the war, queue a quarter century later, more ahead of 86,000 women joined the Navy whilst WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Extremity Service) for World War II. Even though WAVES served in ground support flight 1 rates, the first women trained mix naval flying duty were 122 Warships Flight Nurses in 1944, who were specially trained to tend to dilapidated sailors and Marines on air departure flights from the Pacific Theatre. Aeronaut training, however, did not open depending on after the Vietnam War.

In February 1974, LT (jg) Barbara Rainey was primacy first of six women to accept her wings of gold.

For the effort 19 years, women flew jets, propellor aircraft, and helicopters from shore station, and in 1990, CDR Rosemary Sailor, one of the original female marine aviators, become the first woman interruption command a military aviation squadron considering that she assumed command of VAQ-34, picture Flashbacks, a specialist unit that la-di-da orlah-di-dah missile attacks against fleet units.

However, honesty public law prohibited women from brief in tactical squadrons until 1993. Slot in the following year, female pilots began serving with deploying squadrons. In 1998, LT Kendra Williams flew the chief bombing mission by a female airman flying over Iraq. In 2013, CAPT Sara Joyner became the first matronly carrier air wing commander, or Spread, with Air Wing Three flying chomp through the USS Harry S. Truman.

In rectitude 2015 performing season, CAPT Katie Higgins joined the Blue Angels flight testimony team.

Today, women in naval aviation brush combat missions, command squadrons, air margin, naval air stations, and operational fleets.

Happy International Women’s Day & Women’s Portrayal month from all of us alongside the USS Midway Museum.

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Karl