On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

“I’m speechless,” said retired U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Alexander P. Turner, Jr. as he looked up to see the magnificent jet. “I’m looking at a granddaughter for the first time. There she is, and ...