Life Imitates Art, A Bit Early (July 19, 2024)

[Bandit LOAF]

In the Wing Commander I & II guide, Spirit ever so briefly mentions that all-women combat missions are normal… but that they weren’t allowed in 2638, sixteen years earlier. This probably seemed progressive in 1991 when the US military did not allow women to fly in combat at all. But by 2011, the USAF was flying all female combat missions a few centuries ahead of schedule!




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Original update published on July 19, 2024

 

[ChrisReid]

Timely news related to this story: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/midd...l-female-fighter-pilot-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed.

The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower as part of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, nicknamed the “Flying Swordsmen.”