Meet The Navy's First Female African American Tactical Jet Pilot
Lieutenant J.G. Madeline Swegle's achievement comes 46 years after the Navy got its first female tactical jet pilot.
By Joseph TrevithickJuly 9, 2020
The War Zone
U.S. Navy Lieutenant J.G. Madeline Swegle has made history as her service's first-ever female African American tactical jet pilot. She is set to formally receive her gold wings at a ceremony later this month as a newly minted Naval Aviator.
News that Swegle had successfully completed the final stage of her Tactical Air (Strike) aviator training had first emerged on July 7, when a personal friend of the lieutenant, who goes by the Twitter handle @PaigeAlissa, Tweeted out about it. The Chief of Naval Air Training's (CNATRA) public affairs office has now confirmed that this is the case in its own Tweet.
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"BZ to Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle on completing the Tactical Air (Strike) aviator syllabus," the Tweet from CNATRA reads, using the abbreviation for "Bravo Zulu," a term the Navy, among others, uses as a way of saying "job well done." Swegle is the @USNavy’s first known Black female TACAIR pilot and will receive her Wings of Gold later this month."
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