Brenda Robinson, who earned her wings in 1980, became the first African American female graduate from the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School, according to the nonprofit organizationLt j.g. Madeline Swegle, assigned to the Redhawks of Training Squadron 21 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, exits a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft after completing her final flight of the undergraduate Tactical Air pilot training syllabus, July 7, 2020.
Lt j.g. Madeline Swegle, assigned to the Redhawks of Training Squadron 21 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, exits a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft after completing her final flight of the undergraduate Tactical Air pilot training syllabus, July 7, 2020.Swegle, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, is receiving an outpouring of praise and support for her achievement.Rear Adm. Paula D. Dunn, the Navy's vice chief of information, via Twitter on Thursday."Go forth and kick butt.
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Great ‼️
Finally. What year are we in? SMH
CONGRATULATIONS!!!? STAY SAFE!!!
Against all the Odds.
thank you for your service and congratulations, you are truly a inspiration to young women everywhere.
Off to kill more black/brown ppl!
Awesome and congrats! 👏👏👏👏
Wow. Lots of misogyny and racism in the comments. We wonder why she's the first? Really? Given the barriers of institutional racism and sexism!
This is how we know racism is a real thing because if it wasn’t a thing we wouldn’t even have to announce in 2020 that we have our 1st black fighter pilot.... this is 2020 for Christ sake!!!!!
CrotalusLove Women generally have superior eye hand coordination over males. Ridiculous how long this took.
Good news!
rolandsmartin Congratulations!!🎉🎉
I'd love to celebrate this... but it's 2020 for crying out loud. What took you so long Navy?
For the first time in history a black female will reign terror from the skies onto human beings. Finally equality in the utter disgrace of our country. Until now black women were not allowed to commit mass murder for a paycheck.
MalcolmNance Now there's a woman who's waded through some serious shit to get where she is today. She's got to be twice as good as the average fighter pilot.
Here come the racists.
Badass American Warrior 🇺🇸
I’m surprised Trump let that happen! Good job young lady👍 best of luck to you🇺🇸
OFDResistance About 50 years late. C’mon folks we can do better. We need to raise our expectations & raise our voices when expectations are not met. But kudos to Madeline Swegle for fighting through all she’s had to.
Congrats Nice
Hard work rewarded 😁Congratulations!!!
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This is both great and sad news FFS it’s 2020!!!
What took so long?
MalcolmNance And we have had fighter pilots for how long now?
MalcolmNance Great news!
MalcolmNance Trump will now “reassign” her.
MalcolmNance Congratulations 🎈
rolandsmartin What year is this again?
Congratulations sis. Am praying for your continued success. I guess it would be ridiculous to say, 'reach for the skies,' but now one can truly say, 'the sky is NOT the limit.' You go girl!
bluedillygal Congratulations Madeline!
I'd be extremely proud of my daughter should she achieve something similar. Hopefully she inspires other girls to open up professions previously viewed as the domain of men.
And
So proud of her 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Why did it take so long?
The fact that we are still celebrating the “first Black” anything today should be proof enough that racism is very much embedded in this country in countless ways.
Yay a black baby killing machine! So proud 🙄
What an accomplishment!
BIG DEAL she is brown .....let the fucking dancing begin
Good news the plane is not racist!
Yawn, women been fighter pilots for decades
Fly safely and G-d Bless you for your service to our country to fight for our freedoms!❤🙏❤
Pigmentation and genitalia are historic! grapejellymatters
How has this not happened before
USA! USA! Congratulations!!
Praying for you. Praying for you to sit on my face. Yeeeesssss heh heh heh heh. Fact, 100% of female fighter pilotes in the navy give me wood. Like boiiioiiiooing. Requesting a fly by heh heh. Buzz my tower heh heh heh
I'm sure right now TrumpTreason and other RepubliCONS are muttering under their breath: 'Get that SOB out of the Navy.' RemoveTrumpNOW before more US soldiers are senselessly murdered on the orders of KingPutin, TrumptyDumpty's RussianLover.
Congratulations
Congratulations to her and all her accomplishments and achievements!
Wait this is a first today? Well that sucks.
Congratulations! Navy
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That’s a trainer plain not a fighter.
First?😫😫
So proud!
You go girl
What is the history. Gender, colour or the plane.
Congratulations!
Thank you for your service and congratulations!
Thank You President Trump for making this happen under your watch‼️‼️🇺🇸👍 WalkAway Blexit
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Very inspiring.
Congratulations Ms. Swegel!!
With the military's push for 'inclusion' I sure as Hell hope she earned it and not just given the position as a reparation for past 'wrongs'.
Well done. The Tuskegee Pilots continue their legacy. Go Redtails!!!!!!!!!
Huh. It was not until 1993 that the DemocraticParty elected its first black Senator. This was 123 years after the GOP
Inspiring for whole of womanhood in US and rest of the world.
See, everyone? Here's the media emphasizing her skin color again.
MikeyMikeFace She’s an amazing fighter pilot, period😉❤️
Kudos to Madeline.
Bout time, many females of color don’t join the force
She will be the first of many. Should've happened years ago.
Bessie Coleman 2020....
Great to hear.
Go on with your bad self....
I love the accomplishment.. but I dont go around saying : first Latino doing this, first time Latino doing that.. what are we aliens 👾 that we need to be noticed as Latino this Latino that..
Affirmative action does work!
Sad that it has taken this long and that it is a headline
Congratulations to her!! Should be in the next Top Gun movie 🤙🏿
I'm sure right now TrumpTreason and other RepubliCONS are muttering under their breath: 'Get that SOB out of the Air Force.' RemoveTrumpNOW before more US soldiers are senselessly murdered on the orders of KingPutin, TrumptyDumpty's RussianLover.
Year 2020.
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Thank you president Trump!
IvankaTrump I’m sympathetic to BLM, but adding it to this story is insanely gratuitous and condescending.
IvankaTrump Congratulations Madeline! You are obviously brilliant! A shining addition to our great military forces!
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IvankaTrump Congratulations sister
Systemic racism is real!
Congratulations
Alyssa_Milano Yes!
MrsShannon2015 bout damn time
Sadly, ABC omitted the slew of extra training sessions it took for her to get there. If she were a White Male she would have been dropped from the program after her 2nd retake. But hey, good luck with those trap landings. Next stop, NASA.
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In America everything is always labeled. Then they try to convince us that they are colorblind. MadelineSwegleFighterPilot CongratulationsMadelineSwegle
Girl, go brave! To infinity and beyond! ✈🚀🌟
That is real great being the first female fighter pilot now you can see a female can achieve any goal in their life by work fir it my Hat is off to all females
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Amazing 😉!
What does Black Lives Matters think about her not being in the streets rioting but instead actually making huge achievements in a pilot career?
rtypaige Congratulations to Lt. jg Swegle from a former Naval Aviator.
Alyssa_Milano Yay, go get'em, Madeline, your country honors you and your service!
U.S. Navy has a Token? No pun, labels do this, modeling agencies do this, and it's to show tolerance...
bannerite You go girl!
that is Wonderful
Bravo 🙏🏿🙌🏿👏🏿
Congratulations.
Alyssa_Milano Danger Zone baby!
ProgressiveTex There are educated women who can do some awesome things.
This should've been a headline at least forty years ago.
Salute❤️❤️
All during the Trump administration..... Thank you Obama for not doing a damn thing
Well if it happened a long time ago... we wouldn't still be on the first black anything in 2020! Congratulations my courageous sister!!! Be great girl be great!!!
Awesome!!
Now, women can bomb and kill innocent children over seas, too! Hooray for liberal capitalist equality!
Alyssa_Milano But I thought all black people were oppressed? That’s was the news networks keep saying. How did this happen?
She fly..
Lol
Omg! Congrats to her and I don't want to make light of her amazing accomplishment, but it's 2020. What took so long for this to happen?! (Rhetorical)
I think this is wonderful, but I urge her to take care, because this country is not big on the Black People making history of any kind. As for me this White Old Marine Salutes You, and more like You that will come. Semper Fi.
2020.....
The media is infatuated with race. Don't they have a word to describe that? 🤔
Good job young lady
Wow! Now she can kill people of color and other religions in other countries too! Wow! So great!🤪
This is cool and all but America only goes to war with black and brown people, these days so...
Absolutely awesome!! So happy for her!! She makes all women proud and little girls to look up to and aspire to be!!❤️
This is great! Let’s see more women following suit.
Congratulations
Congratulations 🥳
Awesome
Every-Fucking-Thing is about race and gender in the U.S. of Dumbfuckistan. Give it a rest already.
You go girl!
Congrats to the whole class. All colours. Both sexes. Glad she passed. All that hard work payed off.
Alyssa_Milano Well be careful Ma’am because your Commander in Chief is allowing bounties on your head!
Fantastic, a power of example to all colors especially Black! Thank you for serving.
Black History & Excellence at it’s finest!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
African American women have as much right as anyone else to drop bombs and annihilate innocent civilians in the poorest countries on earth.
Fabulous to see!
The Americans followed by the rest of The West never stop working at it do they ? However, as a rule, if you have to keep on and on and on proving something, it’s almost certainly not true anyway...
What a gorgeous smile
I'm happy for her accomplishment, but disappointed it took this long.
BESSIE COLEMAN was the first black female pilot and people beed to know her name.
Congratulations
Congratulations but honey, you better cross your T’s and dot them I’s like never before.
Congratulations
Bravo
Go head sus✊🏾
Sweeeeeet! I Love A Contender! Go, Sister!
See what mainstream media turns to, I thought this only happens in developing countries. Is US still under-developed?
Alyssa_Milano Congratulations Madeline 👏 🥰🎊🇺🇸
Now that is news worthy. Congratulations to her for all her hard work. Fly safe.
Congratulations ❤️
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ProfMMurray In the year 2020...
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How about selective service equality for all 18 -25 year olds. Let everyone die for the military war machine.
Anything is possible! nobarriers
Alyssa_Milano and she is a Republican....LMFAO
Yea! But, may I remind everyone, it's 2020! What took so long? Tuskegee airmen were 1941-46.
OKane33Lysa
Alyssa_Milano Women who are meeee tooo victims in the military supports the idea women don’t belong in the military! Women are breeders, not fighters!
For those of you thinking, “wow she’s the first black one and it’s 2020?” This is a specific kind of aircraft... in tactical wing which was only recently opened to females anyway. There were and are black female navy pilots.
You go girl
Nice
Congratulations!😁
I wouldn’t want my accomplishments praised based on my skin color.
Awesome! ✊🏾
When will we celebrate our first Transgender fighter pilot, LGBTQ pilot, I wish you people stop making a big deal out of it. Great achievement for any one, but can you operate under pressure and to agenda driven people can you keep politics out of our military,.
Sweet
Color of skin has nothing to do with ability. Remember the WW2 Red Tails?
Alyssa_Milano ✊❤️
That took a while. WTFUSAF?
Wow I thought we already had one?! I wish her the best in her career.
Don't dare mess with this woman!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kinda messed up that Marvel made a black woman a fighter pilot before the US Navy did.
Alyssa_Milano It’s July 2020... WHY IS THIS NEWS?
Congratulations!!! 👏👏👏
You can bring a horse to water but you can’t make em drink, you can’t get mad that this is the first black female pilot because chances are it’s because no black females wanted to be a pilot. Correct me if I wrong.
Bravo to the young lady.🙏 Stay safe.
DrK_W1984 The way this is written portrays the two fundamental challenges that stood in her way..?!!! Being Black and Being a Woman.?
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Can I fly with you when you come to Hawaii? When you have free time and a borrowed jet? I'll take you Dinner and Dancing..
Racist
Alyssa_Milano It's only 2020. Some day the USA will catch up with the rest of the world.
Congratulations on your achievements
Alyssa_Milano Wait a minute Alyssa_Milano, we haven't asked her if she's voting for Joe Biden or not. If she isn't, she ain't black!
Alyssa_Milano That's awesome! Good to hear that❤
Alyssa_Milano USN veteran congratulations to my sister in arms. God Bless Shipmate..⚓️💯🇺🇸
It’s a pity this isn’t about talent or brains. Guess it’s all about melanin. Wait. Judging people on the basis of their skin is racist.
BlackGirlMagic
Wow, took this long? Just wow. And the naysayers out there saying equal opportunity is for everyone. With the BLM movement, I see more & more POC given opportunities like this. Way to go.
Congratulations
Earned it!! 👏🏽
Congratulations, LT Swegle. YOU make America BETTER. And proud‼️
Awesome! Congratulations to her.
Great! 👏👏👏 But it shouldn't have taken this long.
Good? Don’t think anyone believes that the hue of someone’s skin would possibly prevent this despite the way it’s reported a great accomplishment for her though
Proof racism is in the mind of the racist
ProfMMurray Congratulations!
Doesn’t fit your narrative.
Congratulations to Madeline for being the U.S. Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot. She didn't get there because of diversity or inclusion. She got there thru hard work. She earned it!
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