Michelle Goodman
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Michelle Jayne Goodman DFC (born 22 November 1976) became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross while serving as a Flight Lieutenant in the British Royal Air Force in Iraq.
Born and educated in Bristol, Goodman studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Manchester.
She joined the RAF in 2000 and trained as a helicopter pilot at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. She joined 78 Squadron, part of the Merlin Force, at RAF Benson in 2004. She has had three tours of Iraq.[1]
She was captain of an Incident Reaction Team Merlin, when, on 1 June 2007, she flew into Basra at night using night vision and under heavy fire to evacuate a serious casualty, 20-year-old Stephen Vause (who had 15 minutes to live following a mortar attack).[2] Her Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted on 7 March 2008.
