As a Black female in uniform, however, Clairborne said she was mistaken for a flight attendant when in the air and a baggage handler when on the ground in an given airport.

The U.S. Air Force has removed certain articles about a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and the first female Thunderbird pilot from military websites, stating they were taken down in compliance ...

MONUMENT, Colo. — The U.S. Air Force has removed certain articles about a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and the first female Thunderbird pilot from military websites, stating they were taken ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed web content honoring several trailblazing female pilots—including the first woman to fly with the Thunderbirds, the elite air demonstration squadron—in an effort ...

MONUMENT, Colo. — Days after 9NEWS reported that the U.S. Air Force had removed certain articles about a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and the first female Thunderbird pilot from military ...

MONUMENT, Colo. — The U.S. Air Force has removed certain articles about a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and the first female Thunderbird pilot from military websites, stating they were taken ...

Pioneering aviator Capt. Theresa M. Claiborne has retired after 43 years of flying, first as a second lieutenant and the first Black female pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and then as a captain at ...

MONUMENT, Colo. — The U.S. Air Force has removed certain articles about a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and the first female Thunderbird pilot from military websites, stating they were taken ...

(Miriam Thurber/Air Force) An airman recently became the first female survival, evasion, resistance, escape, or SERE, specialist to achieve the rank of chief master sergeant, the service announced.

Retired Air Force Col. Samantha Weeks graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado in 1993 and logged 2,200 flying hours in F-15Cs, F-16s and T-38 Talons — including 105 combat hours ...

The first group of female pilots assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing begin their first day of ground testing an in-flight bladder relief system. (Airman 1st Class Rebecca Sirimarco-Lang/Air Force ...