The US Navy’s famed air display team, the Blue Angels, named Lieutenant Amanda Lee their first female pilot to fly a fighter jet Monday.
Lee, of Mounds View, Minnesota, was one of six new officers selected for the 2023 air show season, the Navy said in a statement.
After a five-month training program, she will fly the F/A-18 Super Hornet for the Navy’s elite demonstration team, formed in 1946.
Lee was promoted to officer in 2013 after training to become an avionics technician, the Navy said.
In 2016 she became a naval aviator.
Lee, whose call sign is Stalin, will be the first woman to fly a fighter jet for the Blue Angels.
Another woman, Marine Major Katie Cook, joined the Blue Angels in 2015, flying a C-130 support aircraft known as “Fat Albert”.
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