Tuskegee’s Kayla Freeman is First Black Woman to Serve as Alabama National Guard Pilot
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Tuskegee University alumna Lt. Kayla Freeman became the first black woman in Alabama history to join the state’s national guard as a pilot. The 2016 TU graduate who serves as an aerospace engineer at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama completed training at Fort Rucker Army Aviation school last month, and was pinned by retired Col. Christine “Nickey” Knighton, the first woman in the U.S. Army to command a tactical combat arms battalion.
Tuskegee’s Kayla Freeman is First Black Woman to Serve as Alabama National Guard Pilot
Tuskegee’s Kayla Freeman is First Black Woman…
Tuskegee’s Kayla Freeman is First Black Woman to Serve as Alabama National Guard Pilot
Tuskegee University alumna Lt. Kayla Freeman became the first black woman in Alabama history to join the state’s national guard as a pilot. The 2016 TU graduate who serves as an aerospace engineer at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama completed training at Fort Rucker Army Aviation school last month, and was pinned by retired Col. Christine “Nickey” Knighton, the first woman in the U.S. Army to command a tactical combat arms battalion.