Captain Rosemary Mariner was the first female military aviator to fly a tactical fighter jet and the first to achieve command of an operational air squadron. She breathed her last on 24 January in Knoxville, Tennessee. She died at the age of 65 after fighting a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. Her husband, Tommy Mariner […]

Women are increasingly taking on a bigger role in Indian Navy. While the all-women crew is circumnavigating the planet, 20 women war-fighters are onboard the Navy’s superior anti-submarine warfare aircraft, the US-built Poseidon 8-India (P-8I). The Navy uses the aircraft to trace Chinese warships and submarines in the Indian Ocean. Initially, the Navy inducted women as observers […]

It was the year 1956 in Washington DC when a woman, Raye Montague, was getting ready to make history in the US Navy. An African-American woman from Arkansas, Montague knew the circumstances that she was born in. An America, that still struggled with racism and sexism, would not let this Southern Black woman’s dreams soar high. […]