I found a few interesting images when I was researching a previous post. As is typical on the internet, the first one is contextless. But as near as I can tell this is an all-female flight crew of a KC-135 Stratotanker. How do I know this? I read a lot. A lot. And I was in the Army, which helps a little.  There is a pilot and co-pilot. The one on the right in the seat area is a captain, the one bottom left is a first lieutenant of the two whose ranks can be seen. The other two I can’t see their ranks, but the co-pilot in the other seat is probably a captain or first lieutenant. The first lieutenant (the one on the bottom left) would be a navigator. The one on the bottom right would be the boom operator (the hardest job on the plane, btw).  Their nametags and unit patches are not on, which probably has to do with their wearing desert fatigues and therefore are on mission*:

The one below actually had a caption embedded, and it was: “Four F-15 Eagle pilots from the 3rd Wing walk to their respective jets at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, on Wednesday, July 5, for the fini flight of Maj. Andrea Misener (far left). To her right are Capt. Jammie Jamieson, Maj. Carey Jones and Capt. Samantha Weeks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Keith Brown)”

Cool to find this stuff. I just want to help put the idea out there if some random girl or woman dreaming of this stuff does a Google search and finds my blog (FSM help her) she might realize that yeah, she can be like Starbuck if she damn well wants to be.

*If you get captured, don’t want them to know who you are.

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