Dee Brasseur

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Major (Retired) Deanna Marie (Dee) Brasseur (born September 9, 1953) is a retired Canadian military officer and one of the two first two female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world.

Born in Pembroke, Ontario, a daughter to Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Lionel C. (Lyn) Brasseur and Marie Olive (Aucoin), she joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1972 as an administrative clerk at a dental unit detachment in Winnipeg. The following year, she was accepted for commissioning under the office candidate training program. She graduated as an air weapons controller in 1974. In 1979, she was accepted for pilot training and received her wings in 1981. In 1988, she took fighter pilot training. She retired from the military in 1994 with 2,500 hours of jet flying.

In 1998, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

In 1998, a Maclean's cover story on sexual abuse in Canada's Forces prompted Brasseur to go public with her own experiences. In the June 1st edition of the magazine, Brasseur claimed that throughout her 21-year career she faced unwanted sexual advances, was raped by her enlisted boyfriend and was coerced into having sex with her flight teacher.