All-female flyover for funeral of U.S. Navy’s first woman fighter pilot

The commanding officer of VFA-32, CDR Stacy Uttecht, will lead a all-female missing man flyover at the funeral of retired Capt. Rosemary Mariner on Feb. 2.

Capt Rosemary Bryant Mariner
Smithsonian Institution [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


Mariner was the first woman in the service to graduate as a fighter pilot in 1974. She was also the first woman aviator to command an operational air squadron.

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