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  • Meet Team Minot's All-Woman Helo Flight

    The 54th Helicopter Squadron’s all women flight posed for a photo in front of a UH-1N Iroquois helicopter at Minot Air Force base, North Dakota, Mar. 28, 2024. This was part of an all-women’s helo flight in celebration of Women’s History Month. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Trust Tate)

  • 91st Missile Wing celebrates Women’s History Month

    Female Airmen from the 91st Operations Group, 91st Maintenance Group, and 91st Security Forces Group pose for a photo at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, March 8, 2024. March is Women's History Month, an occasion to heighten awareness of the contributions women have made to history and continue

  • 40th Helicopter Squadron conducts all-female UH-1N Huey flight

    Capt. Angela Stella, left, Airman 1st Class Lydia Beck, center, and Capt. Kaitlyn Dinwiddie, air crew with the 40th Helicopter Squadron, stand in front of a UH-1N Huey helicopter March 7, 2024, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. This all-female crew conducted a routine mission in honor of Women's

  • Women In Charge: 509th Medical Group leads the way!

    The 509th Medical Group at Whiteman AFB is led by their commander Col. Sandra Nestor and SEL Chief Master Sgt. Amanda Frampton, who recently spoke about how it feels to have the opportunity to oversee and mentor the next generation of Airmen.

  • Don't Tell Me I Can't

    Lt. Col. Kathleen Tenpenny, 37th Helicopter Squadron commander, has been flying for 14 years, she has wanted to fly since she was just 2 years old. With a passion for flight, Tenpenny joined the Air Force through the Air Force Academy, landing a tentative pilot slot to fly helicopters, but it wasn’t

  • Female aviators take to the sky in honor of Women’s History Month

    A B-1 taxied on the flight line at Ellsworth Air Force Base, preparing to takeoff. What made this flight unique was not the mission – to train and hone the Airmen’s skills while they flew in the local area. What made this March 21 flight remarkable was that the entire aircrew was comprised of female

  • History made in honor of Women's History Month

    Ninety female missileers made U.S. Air Force history, March 22, 2016 as the first all-female missile alert crews to serve on alert at three intercontinental ballistic missile wings simultaneously.