Madeline Swegle, from Virginia, will be awarded her flight officer insignia later this month.
Lieutenant JG Madeline Swegle has completed naval flight school and will be awarded her flight officer insignia, known as Wings Of Gold, later this month.
The Naval Air Training Command said on Twitter that Lt JG Swegle is the Navy's first known black female TACAIR pilot.She is from Burke, Virginia, and graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2017, according to US military publication Stars And Stripes.Swegle's sister Sophie shared the navy's post on Twitter, writing:"Just my older sister being a boss every day of her life. Proud of her doesn't even cover it".
Naval aviation is dominated by white men - according to a Military.com investigation in 2018, there were only 26 black pilots out of the 1,404 who flew the F/A-18 and less than 2% of all pilots on jet platforms were black.
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