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Meet Lt. Col. Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell: America’s First Black Female Fighter Pilot

Summary by Shine My Crown
When Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell was a little girl in Parker, Colorado, she would look to the sky and imagine herself there, not as a passenger, but as the one at the controls. In 1999, that childhood dream carried her into history as she became the first Black woman to earn fighter-pilot wings in the U.S. Air Force, flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon and later completing combat missions in Operation Allied Force. For decades, America’s fighter pilot …
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Shine My Crown broke the news in on Thursday, December 4, 2025.
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