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Mm .

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There's so many feelings from

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excitement to just the anxiety of the

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unknown . Like when I joined the Air

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Force Service people that I could ask ,

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Hey , how's it like ? And there's not

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many people in the space Force . So

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it's scary yet exciting .

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Joined back in August of 2000 and one .

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I thought Air Force was the best choice

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for me . I mean , as a child , I always

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watched the airplanes and nearby

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airport and thought that it was just so

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cool to see . And I love the color blue .

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So Air Force just seemed like the right

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choice for me . Um , but a part of me

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always envied those that , like ,

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worked at NASA . And so once this

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opportunity to kind of do a similar

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thing arose and I just decided to dive

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in . My biggest challenge has been that

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people who think that I should be

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promoted or that I was promoted solely

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on the fact that I was a woman once I

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realized that that was the expectation

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that women got all these things . I

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made it my mission to work hard and and

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be promoted based on my merit and not

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on my gender . You know , I didn't want

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anybody to tell me or say that , you

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know , she got that job because she was

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a woman . I didn't want that stigma .

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It's really awesome to not have any

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barriers based on gender . It's not

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about your gender . It's about how well

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you can do your job . Are you motivated ?

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Can you be innovative ? You know , Can

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you lead people ? Can you mentor ? You

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know , Are you caring about others ?

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You know , I feel like that's just what

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our culture needs to focus on these

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days .