“Midwestern stoicism … that ability to just do the work with no fanfare” may be uniquely Wisconsin - Carey Lohrenz

I wanted to fly fighters because those pilots were the cream of the crop,” she says. “I thought to myself, Well, it takes about two years to get through this program. So maybe by the time I’m done, they will have lifted the law.”

So, knowing that history and understanding that every day I showed up, I was standing on the shoulders of greatness, she says. Calm is your superpower, but the relentless scrutiny simply because I was a woman, that was nonstop.

I faced a lot of up and downs. But, I started my career in the cockpit and I ended my career in the cockpit. I wouldn't have it any other way,