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When Lt. Sahara Graft checked into Patrol Squadron 45 in February 2021, she and a few other women in the squadron shared a dream: to one day <\/b>complete an all-female flight together<\/a> aboard the one of the squadron\u2019s P-8A Poseidon aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe always talked about how cool it would be for us to all fly together one day and even have an all-female flight,\u201d Graft told Navy Times Thursday. \u201cAt the time, it didn\u2019t seem possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheer numbers stymied the dream at the time, Graft recalled, because there were not enough qualified women to fill each crew position in the Poseidon, which requires nine personnel to conduct its anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, in the coming years, as more and more female crew members joined the squadron<\/a>, Graft and her fellow squadron mates, Lt. Sarah Hoffman and Lt. Kelsey Smallwood, didn\u2019t lose sight of their goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when another woman pilot, Lt. j.g. Aubrey Ossenmacher, joined the squadron a few months ago, the women of VP-45 were adequately manned to pull off an all-female flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The milestone took place on Sept. 21, out of Jacksonville, Florida, during a training event that involved not only an all-female aircrew, but a <\/b>ground and maintenance crew that were also all women. All told, 16 women were involved in the flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time all of us have been able to do an all female flight,\u201d Hoffman told Navy Times. \u201cAnd then especially having the female ground crew, to maintenance personnel, was just something that we all had never seen before\u2026it was very historic and special for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrol Squadron 45 members spent weeks planning to ensure everyone’s schedules aligned and that all the operational requirements were met to conduct the all-female flight. (MC2 Jonathan Berlier\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That enthusiasm extended to all the air crew, as Naval Aircrewmen (Operator) 2nd Class Paige Rossi recalled the inspiration she felt leading up to the flight.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think you could really feel the empowerment that we all felt, from the brief, to the pre-flight, to the mission execution, even to landing,\u201d Rossi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-female flights \u2013 especially ones including female ground crew and maintenance \u2013 are rare in Navy aviation, recognized as a particularly male-dominated field in the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While roughly 21 percent of the Navy\u2019s active-duty force were women as of Fiscal Year 2023, just more than 11percent of the Navy\u2019s winged population are women, according to the Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy conducted an all-female flyover of F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornets <\/b>in 2019 to honor retired Navy Capt. Rosemary Mariner at her funeral in Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariner made history as the Navy\u2019s first female jet pilot to fly the A-4E\/L Skyhawk and the A-7E Corsair II, and also was the first female military aviator to command an operational air squadron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All female pilots also participated in a flyover for the Super Bowl in February<\/a> to celebrate 50 years of women in naval aviation, commemorating when the very first women entered Navy flight school in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet me tell you, it is absolutely humbling to see \u2014 I\u2019ve been in the Navy 29 years \u2014 to see the growth and development of our armed services,\u201d Cmdr. Michael Zdunkiewicz, Patrol Squadron 45\u2032s commanding officer, told Navy Times. \u201cThis is a very important thing to me. And I cannot thank [enough] the female aviators who rallied to put this together to accomplish this type of mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other members who participated in the Sept. 21 flight included Lt. Eliza Austin, Lt. Ashley Heath, Lt. j.g. Alissa McNair, Naval Aircrewmen (Operator) 2nd Class Savannah Murray, Naval Aircrewmen (Operator) 2nd Class Alexia Heninger, and Naval Aircrewmen (Operator) 2nd Class Evelyn Valenzuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maintenance crew included Senior Chief Aviation Machinist\u2019s Mate Jackie Backlund, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Natalie Martin, Aviation Machinist\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Alia Teamer and Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kaitlyn Kaluzny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flight included 12 aircrew members: eight officers and four enlisted sailors. Five women were also involved as ground grew and maintenance personnel. (MC2 Jonathan Berlier\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hoffman said the squadron\u2019s women lean on each other for support, especially on deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo have a strong female bond within the squadron and having other women to help guide you, support you, that you can go to with questions that you wouldn\u2019t want to talk to with anybody else about, has been really important,\u201d she said. \u201cIt has helped me get through tough times with the squadron here over the past three years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graft said the significance of what she and her fellow female comrades had accomplished set in as she left the plane after their dream flight had become reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was such an incredible opportunity,\u201d Graft said. \u201cAnd I know we all worked extremely hard to be qualified in our positions to get here, and so it was an amazing opportunity to share this experience with all of these hard working women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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