All I wanted desperately was just to blend in and be a figh… - Carey Lohrenz

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All I wanted desperately was just to blend in and be a fighter pilot, not a female fighter pilot, she says. The plane doesn't know what gender you are. The plane just wants to fly.

Carey Lohrenz

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Carey Dunai Lohrenz (born October 5, 1968) is a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who was one of the first fully qualified female naval aviators to fly the F-14 Tomcat in the U.S. military.

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Those of us who grow up in a system thinking, ‘All I have do is perform, and my performance will speak for itself’ can actually be left behind,

People think that fighter pilots aren’t afraid of anything, and yet that’s not true,” she says. “It’s that we’ve learned and developed the ability to work through fear, and flip it, and make it actionable, so that it works for us, and not against us.”

I was so stoked. When those assignments came out, based on my performance, I was assigned to fly the F-14 Tomcat,”

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