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- Rosemary Mariner was 20 years old when she was selected, along with seven other women, to fly military aircraft.
- It was the first of many glass ceilings the Navy captain would shatter throughout her 24-year naval career.
- Following her death on January 24, the Navy will honor her with another first — an all-female flyover during her funeral.
Rosemary Mariner was one of the first eight women selected for military pilot training in 1973
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Mariner graduated from Purdue University with a degree in aeronautics. She was 19 years old.
When she completed training and received her pilot’s wings, she was the first woman to ever fly a tactical fixed-wing aircraft.
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Although she was an aviator, she was also one of the first women to serve on a Navy warship, the USS Lexington, and earn the Surface Warfare Officer qualification.
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