First female airman enters training pipeline to be combat controller
By: Stephen Losey  
Combat controllers are trained special warfare airmen, as well as certified FAA air traffic controllers, who deploy with units into combat. They can establish assault zones or airfields, while simultaneously conduct air traffic control, fire support, command and control, and other operations under fire. The first female enlisted airman to attempt to become a combat controller is now in the special warfare prep course. (Air Force)
The Air Force now has its first female airman who is in the training pipeline to become a combat controller.
In an email, 1st. Lt. Jeremy Huggins of the Air Force’s Special Warfare Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas said the enlisted combat control candidate began the eight-week special warfare preparatory course on Oct. 14. If she graduates, she will move on to the assessment and selection course, Huggins said.
A previous female candidate intended to enter the special warfare training pipeline earlier this year to become a combat controller, Huggins said. But she was reclassified into a different career field shortly before she was to begin the special warfare prep course, he said, and she never entered the training wing’s pipeline.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/11/01/first-female-airman-attempts-to-become-combat-controller/
