KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Navy has welcomed its first Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot.
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“MAKING HISTORY!” the U.S. Navy tweeted Thursday in response to a post that Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle had completed naval flight school and would later this month receive the flight officer insignia known as the “Wings of Gold.”
The Naval Air Training Command tweeted that Swegle is the Navy’s “first known Black female TACAIR pilot.”
According to Stars and Stripes, Swegle is from Burke, Virginia, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2017.
Officials said she is assigned to the Redhawks of Training Squadron 21 in Kingsville, Texas.
Swegle’s milestone comes more than 45 years after Rosemary Mariner in 1974 became the first woman to fly a tactical fighter jet, according to news outlets.
Some years ago, at the BMV, I met a retired Tuskeegee Airman. I didn’t realize who he was at the time, but I read about him in the newspaper.
Wow, thank you President Obama & Biden. Oops, no wait a second. They didn’t have any black pilots. Check that. Thank you President Trump! Thank you for being the only President who is a genuine true friend of the African-American community. Long live President Trump. This President will win in a landslide later this year. No need for the basement phantom to take his mask off.
The air force appointed not the fake blond president