Women Warriors 163

USMC

Ukraine

Ukraine

Ryazan Airborne School, Russia

Sniper

U.S. Army, Iraq

USAF

Aerial Gunner Mary Howe, 4th Special Ops Squadron AC-130

USAF CAPT Jammie Jamieson, F-22 Raptor Pilot

ATS

Soviet YAK-1 Ace Lydia Litvyak

ATS Plotter

IDF

Serbian Army 2K12 Kub SAM

US ARMY Specialist Jenny Martinez

Italian Army B1 Centauro Tank Destroyer

IDF

IDF Mercava

Serbia

(from right) 1Lt Julie “TIMBER” Ayres, Capt. Mary “GINGER” Melfi, and Capt. Tally “VIXEN” Parham, three of the five female fighter pilots from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing that flew in combat missions in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from this forward-deployed air base in the Middle East, walk together down the flightline on May 3, 2003. Lt Ayres and Capt. Melfi, from the 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of Seymour Johnson A.F.B., NC, are weapons system officers on the F-15E Strike Eagle. Capt. Parham, from the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of McEntire, SC, is a fighter pilot on the F-16CJ and is part of the S.C. Air National Guard. The 379th AEW is credited with flying 3,440 sorties and delivering over 1,500 tons of ordnance during the combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (RELEASED)(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DERRICK C. GOODE)

ATA pilots

Russian Paratrooper

IDF

Japan

US Coast Guard SPARs

IDF

US Army

Italy

WASP pilot Shirley Slade

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