Women have served with the Blue Angels in other capacities for more than 55 years, but Lt. Amanda Lee, of Mounds View, Minnesota, is the first to join the iconic flight squadron as a pilot, the Navy said.
As the Navy's Blue Angels prepare for the Marine Corps Beaufort Air Show in South Carolina, the CBS News correspondent goes for a spin on one of the F-18sThe U.S. Navy's Blue Angels have named the first woman as a demonstration pilot for the 2023 air show season.
The Blue Angels also named five other new members of the team based at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, including pilots Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Zimmerman, of Baltimore, Maryland and Marine Corps Capt. Samuel Petko of Osceola, Indiana.
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