“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.”

Courage does not mean the absence of fear, it means you have to feel the fear and go for it anyway,”

It was big, it was heavy and it tended to be slightly underpowered,” Lohrenz says. “You’re coming across the back end of that aircraft carrier, going about 165 miles an hour, and you slam down on that deck and come to a complete stop in just under 1.2 seconds.”