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Vernice Armour
United States Marine Corps pilot
Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour (born 1973) is a former United States Marine Corps officer who was the first African-American female naval aviator in the Marine Corps and the America's first black female combat pilot.
Armour completed her training in Quantico, Virginia, and commissioned as a second lieutenant in She immediately pursued a career in.
She flew the AH-1W SuperCobraattack helicopter in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and eventually served two tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.[1]
Early life and education
Armour was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois to Gaston Armour Jr.
and Authurine Armour. After her parents divorced, Clarence Jackson married Authurine. Both her father and her stepfather had served in the military - Gaston Armour was a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and Clarence Jackson was a former Marine Corps sergeant who served three tours in Vietnam.[2] Her grandfather was a Montford Point Marine, the first African Americans to integrate the Marine Corps between 1942 and 1949.[3]
Raised in Memphis, Tenn