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- [Narrator] The National Guard has a diverse number

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of military occupational specialties.

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Ask Warrant Officer One, Jesse McCormick.

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Ms. McCormick has been a military police officer,

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a public affairs sergeant,

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and now a pilot for Alpha Company,

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1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment.

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- On my Afghanistan deployment, I was flying around,

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feet dangling out of the side of a Black Hawk,

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and I said, you know what, I think I'd like to fly.

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So I came back, I talked to my first sergeant,

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First Sergeant Hubbard, and I asked her, I said,

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how do I get to flight school?

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And the next day, she had the answers for me

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and I went to flight school.

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- [Narrator] As a recent graduate

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of advanced aircraft training in the AH64D Apache Longbow,

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she is the first female Apache pilot

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in the Mississippi Army National Guard.

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- When they told me that there had never been a female

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and I was gonna be the first,

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this was before I went to flight school, you know.

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It was a lot of weight on my shoulders

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because if I failed, that looked like all females failed.

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- [Narrator] She says being a pilot is an exciting job.

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- I like that I've been able to get a broad variety

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of jobs through the National Guard.

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I like that I have a background in a few different things

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right now but I'm gonna have to say the most exciting

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is probably going to be being an Apache pilot.

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- [Narrator] Reporting for the 102nd Public Affairs

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Detachment, I'm Sergeant First Class Lamont Bradford.