[johniegrad]

I didn't think women were flying combat aircraft in combat situations.

[ewing]

Is this even possible to happen?

[usconservative]

I didn't think women were flying combat aircraft in combat situations.

They're not. At least they weren't last time I checked.

[jlogajan]

I believe women navigators or other weapons operators are called pilots, even if there is a male pilot actually flying the plane. Doesn't matter though -- there are indeed females in some of those craft and they are putting their lives on the line.

[ApesForEvolution]

They are shouldn't be.

[TankerKC]

Yes there are. Women are pilots, navs, WSOs, EWOs..you name it; all on combat aircraft.

[HardStarboard]

>>>I didn't think women were flying combat aircraft in combat situations.<<<

At least one of the helos flying forward scout for the lead tank column on day one was a woman.

[TankerKC]

Look Here.

Another of the first American woman to fly in combat in the '90s was Lt Col.Martha McSally, ranked as the top female Air Force pilot. Lt Col McSally was among the first women trained by the Air Force as a fighter pilot. During a 1995-96 tour of duty in Kuwait, she became the first woman in military history to fly a combat sortie in a fighter aircraft. She also flew more than 100 combat hours on an A-10 Warthog attack plane over Iraq in the mid-1990s, and served as a flight commander and trainer of combat pilots.

In 1993 when Secretary of Defense Les Aspin opened combat aviation to women, including enlisted female aircrew members, allowing women to fly combat missions, opportunities opened even more for women pilots and crew members. With these new opportunities female pilot numbers are increasing steadily with more and more women completing pilot training.

Today, in the war against the Taliban and al-Qaida targets in Afghanistan, women are filling aircrew positions as bomber pilots, navigators, tanker pilots, and weapons officers - those who specialize in operating in flight arms - loadmasters, and varied officer and enlisted aircrew positions

[annyokie]

Female pilots do not fly combat missions.