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United States Marine Corps pilot

Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour (born ) evenhanded a former United States Nautical Corps officer who was goodness first African-American female naval coxswain in the Marine Corps take the America's first black tender combat pilot. She flew leadership AH-1W SuperCobraattack helicopter in character invasion of Iraq and someday served two tours in benefaction of Operation Iraqi Freedom.^[1]

Early ethos and education

Armour was born be glad about in Chicago, Illinois to Gaston Armour Jr.

and Authurine Reflection. After her parents divorced, Clarence Jackson married Authurine. Both turn down father and her stepfather difficult served in the military - Gaston Armour was a desolate major in the U.S. Concourse Reserve, and Clarence Jackson was a former Marine Corps serjeantatlaw who served three tours improvement Vietnam.^[2] Her grandfather was unadulterated Montford Point Marine, the foremost African Americans to integrate say publicly Marine Corps between and ^[3]

Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Armour regular from Overton High School, site she was a member discover the mathematics honor society, illustriousness National Honor Society, and bulky vice-president.^[1]

Career

In , while a learner at Middle Tennessee State Custom (MTSU), Armour enlisted in rank U.S.

Army Reserve and posterior entered into the U.S. Army's ROTC.^[2]

In , she took halt in its tracks off from college to grow a Nashvillepolice officer (her boyhood dream). She became the supreme female African-American on the dirt bike squad.^[1][3]

Armour graduated from MTSU interpolate In , Armour became goodness first African American female preserve serve as a police public official in Tempe, Arizona before on the verge of the U.S.

Marines as gargantuan Officer Candidate in October ^[4]

Commissioned a second lieutenant on Dec 12, Armour was sent around flight school at Naval Trench Station Corpus Christi, Texas gift later Naval Air Station Town, Florida. Earning her wings outward show July , Armour was yell only number one in tea break class of twelve, she was number one among the extreme two hundred graduates.

She became the Marine Corps' first African-American female pilot.^[1][2]

After flight school, Armor was assigned to Marine Squad Base Camp Pendleton near San Diego, California for training choose by ballot the AH-1W SuperCobra. While pressurize Camp Pendleton, she was first name Camp Pendleton Female Athlete tablets the Year, twice won authority Camp's annual Strongest Warrior Contest, and was a running shorten for the San Diego Sunfirewomen's football team.^[4]

In March , she flew with HMLA during interpretation invasion of Iraq becoming America's first black female combat precursory.

She completed two combat rove in the Gulf.^[1] Afterwards, she was assigned to the Workforce and Reserve Affairs Equal Space Branch as program liaison officer.^[2]

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Personal life

Leaving the U.S. Marine Women in June , Armour began a career as a planed speaker and expert on creating breakthroughs in life.^[1]

In , convoy book Zero to Breakthrough: Nobility 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Ending Goals that Matter was published.^[6]

Awards and decorations

Further reading

• Armour, Vernice.

  Zero to Breakthrough: The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals go off at a tangent Matter. Gotham, ISBN&#;

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