Women Military Aviators

Nationwide Release Encourages Public to Join VA Culture Change WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking its internal culture-change message to the public with a new video about the vital role women play in the military and the importance of providing women Veterans with high quality health care. VA’s Women Veterans Health Strategic [...]

Check out the link here for the GE Aviation Lecture on The Fight to Fly at Sea,  A Historical Perspective on Women in Naval Aviation by WMA Member CAPT Rosemary Bryant Mariner on Thursday, October 27 at 8:00 pm in the Lockheed Martin Imax Theater, National Mall Building.  Also, the event is available via live [...]

Author Sarah Byrn Rickman recounts her experience as a WASP escort during this summer’s AirVenture in Oshkosh: “Mecca for aviators and aviation buffs; the world’s biggest air show and gathering; where you learn Hangar-Flying 101!”

Colonel Sally Murphy was the first female Army pilot. She was recognized at a ceremony to honor her accomplishment. See more DoD videos at http://dodvclips.mil

  Navy test pilot Lt. Christopher Tabert takes to the sky July 27 in an F-35C test aircraft launched by a steam catapult for the first time. CF-3 is the designated carrier suitability testing aircraft, and is in Lakehurst for catapult and jet blast deflector testing. The F-35C is the carrier variant of the F-35 [...]

Project StoryKeeper’s Veteran History Project from Jon on Vimeo. About the Project More than 1500 WW2 veterans are passing away each day. So too are Korean and Viet Nam War veterans at an alarming rate. The Library of Congress created the Veterans History Project to collect the personal war time experiences of these American heroes [...]

VA officials create women veterans’ call center.

Dear WASP and Families online: On Saturday, JUNE 25, 2011, the Carmel of Port Tobacco will host a CELEBRATION OF LIFE for Sister Teresa, also known as WASP Anita Paul, 44-W-6. The celebration of her unique and extraordinary life and service to her country is open to the public and will begin at 10am. For [...]

On Thursday, March 31st we were invited to a special luncheon by the 99’s. The luncheon was being catered in a large tent adjacent to the Sun N Fun Museum. We were all seated at many long tables. The caterer was starting to put out his special buffet. The weather forecast had been for heavy thunderstorms. Later it was revealed there were tornadoes embedded in the storms with winds 90 – 100 mph. Suddenly black clouds started rolling in with very high winds!