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Blue Angels' first female pilot takes flight
CBS ^ | April 10, 2015

Posted on 04/11/2015 3:59:18 AM PDT by don-o

When military aviation buffs pack into the Marine Corps Beaufort Air Show in South Carolina, they'll be wowed by the Navy's Blue Angels. But a new kind of history will also take flight in the team: a woman in the cockpit. U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Katie Higgins is the first female pilot in the team's 69-year history. Michelle Miller took to the sky to see how Higgins got her wings.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blueangels
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It is what it is. I guess.
1 posted on 04/11/2015 3:59:18 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

She is flying Fat Albert C-130


2 posted on 04/11/2015 4:02:20 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

I guess these guys know their business but it isn’t likely she’d even be there if standards weren’t lowered in the first place. Whatever. Good luck.


3 posted on 04/11/2015 4:06:29 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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I guess these guys know their business but it isn’t likely she’d even be there if standards weren’t lowered in the first place.

Because a woman can never, ever be as good as a man at anything, right?

4 posted on 04/11/2015 4:11:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: TalBlack; NormsRevenge; advertising guy

This announcement came on the same day my Marine son, who is currently in flight school at Pensacola, advanced far enough in his training to earn the privilege of donning his flight suit for the first time.


5 posted on 04/11/2015 4:14:29 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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“Because a woman can never, ever be as good as a man at anything, right?”

No, because it is statistically far less likely that a woman could be as good at this than that a woman would be selected based on a PC need for a woman to be selected.


6 posted on 04/11/2015 4:19:19 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: don-o

Is she also black and a Muzzy?


7 posted on 04/11/2015 4:27:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DoodleDawg

...Because a woman can never, ever be as good as a man at anything, right?

A man will never be “as good” as a woman in a wide array of ways.
Why fret about it, it is what it is

It’s the men that have to play catch up their entire lives, except in a few specific ways.


8 posted on 04/11/2015 4:27:48 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: don-o

I’m planning on a trip to Ft. Worth in Sept. to see them.
Hope this isn’t a PC decision. The C-130 should be a pretty safe ride.


9 posted on 04/11/2015 4:28:55 AM PDT by Vinnie
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It used be be said that “the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.” Back when P and C were simply letters in the alphabet.


10 posted on 04/11/2015 4:34:45 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Fat Albert? Hey hey hey. You want a drink with a little something extra in it? Hey hey hey.


11 posted on 04/11/2015 4:37:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Congratulations. You should be very proud.


12 posted on 04/11/2015 4:41:51 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Vaquero

Nope..she’s very attractive..and a third generation military aviator...


13 posted on 04/11/2015 4:44:39 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: Born to Conserve; DoodleDawg

C’mon. If there is a frontline job for woman in a military it is flying the airplane. We can find many reasons why women makes crappy infantry, artillerists and sailors but why can’t you let them fly airplanes?


14 posted on 04/11/2015 4:44:54 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
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To: Vinnie

I have tickets for the grandstand at Beaufort tomorrow. Can’t wait to see them again.


15 posted on 04/11/2015 4:54:05 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: DoodleDawg

My husband is a retired Navy pilot. He tells me it takes great physical strength to wrestle an F18 in flight while doing those maneuvers.
This woman is not piloting one of the show jets, she is piloting the transport plane.


16 posted on 04/11/2015 5:15:39 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Born to Conserve

The problem with your theory is that there is no mental or physiological reason whatsoever that a woman can’t be just as good at this particular activity as a man.

It does, however, do a good job of illustrating the counter-productive nature of PC whereby many will assume she isn’t as good simply because she’s a woman.

Is PC wasn’t an issue, and positions were handed out strictly on merit, we could all say, “Look, a female Blue Angel!” and go on about our business.

This case has nothing whatsoever to do, inherently, with the ongoing desperation to force women thru Ranger School.


17 posted on 04/11/2015 5:23:47 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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“Because a woman can never, ever be as good as a man at anything, right?”

Dispute what I said. Dispute that they dumbed down requirements UNTIL women could pass.

Crybaby.


18 posted on 04/11/2015 5:28:23 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: Born to Conserve

Allstate will give her a bonus check for every 6 months of flying in which she is accident free.


19 posted on 04/11/2015 5:32:12 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Sherman Logan
“The problem with your theory is that there is no mental or physiological reason whatsoever that a woman can’t be just as good at this particular activity as a man.”

And yet they have separate titles for Chess champ. Billiards, Bowling, Golf. There are differences and they go deep.

20 posted on 04/11/2015 5:36:05 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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