Sarah Deal
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Sarah Deal Burrow | |
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Allegiance | United States of America |
Service/branch | United States Marine Corps |
Years of service | 1992 - 2004 2006 to present |
Rank | Major |
Unit | HMH-466 HMH-769 |
Major Sarah Deal Burrow, United States Marine Corps, became the first female Marine selected for Naval aviation training, and subsequently the Marine Corps' first female aviator in 1993.[1]
Deal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace flight technology from Kent State University in 1992.[2] She was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in May 1992. Though she had already earned her pilot's license while in college, the Marine Corps did not yet have any female aviators. After Basic School at Quantico, she attended air traffic control school. When U.S. military policy was changed to allow women to fly combat aircraft in 1993, Deal requested to become an aviator. She was selected for training in July 1993. She began her flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola in the T-34C Turbo Mentor aircraft. She went on to helicopter training in the TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopter and earned her aviator's wings on April 21, 1995.
Deal was assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 as a CH-53E pilot.
Deal completed her active duty service in 2004 and transferred to the Marine Corps Reserve. In May 2006, Deal was assigned to HMH-769 where she serves as a reserve CH-53E pilot. Major Deal is married to Philip M. Burrow, a former Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot who now flies for United Airlines. They are the parents of twin boys[3] and a third son born in November 2006.
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[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Williams, DefenseLINK News, 2003.
- ^ Kent State Alumni Association profile
- ^ 2002 Anniversary
[edit] References
- Rudi Williams. "Women Aviators Finally Fill Cockpits of Military Aircraft", DefenseLINK News, March 19, pp2003]]. Retrieved on 2007-02-10.
[edit] External links
- "60 Years of Service - Women in the Corps", United States Marine Corps, 2003.
- Dorr, Robert F. "CH-53E pilot was first female Marine aviator", Army Times, August 9, 2005.
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