Female Aviator Becomes First Woman to Head a Carrier Air Wing

by vfwsheserves on July 29, 2010. Posted in Military Women.

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One of the Navy’s 317 female pilots, Commander Sara Joyner will be promoted to captain this September and is scheduled to report to Carrier Air Wing 14 at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California next summer. She was also the first woman to command an operational fighter squadron known as the Gunslingers, which flew more than 1,880 combat missions. Discover more about Joyner’s accomplishments.

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