[El Gato]

You RUINED the P.C. story of the week!

They didn't say it was the first all female flight crew, not even the first Air Force one. Just the first C-130 crew. IIRC, the COD has a much smaller crew, being a smaller aircraft, so the chances of getting an all female crew is much higher.

[Proud2Srv]

Thank you! :) They didn't claim to be anything, they just flew together. Public affairs wrote the article and put it on the wire, not the crew. The crew only thought they were the first all-female TACTICAL AIRLIFT crew to fly into combat. It's difficult on the C-130 because of the 5 crew positions required to fly the mission. Some squadrons don't even have ONE female in certain positions, let alone enough to make up a crew. The real focus is the MISSION, and those Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, and supplies going uprange...on something other than the dreaded convoy.