The US Navy has actually invited its first black female tactical aircraft pilot.

Lieutenant JG (junior grade) Madeline Swegle has actually finished marine flight school and will be granted her flight officer insignia, called Wings Of Gold, later on this month.

The Naval Air Training Command stated on Twitter that Lt JG Swegle is the Navy’s first understood black female TACAIR (Tactical Aircraft) pilot.

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Lt JG Swegle finished from the US Naval Academy in2017 Photo: US Navy

She is from Burke, Virginia, and finished from the US Naval Academy in 2017, according to US military publication Stars And Stripes.

She is appointed to the Redhawks of Training Squadron 21 in Kingsville, Texas.

Swegle’s sibling Sophie shared the navy’s post on Twitter, composing: “Just my older sister being a boss every day of her life. Proud of her doesn’t even cover it”.

Naval air travel is controlled by white men – according to a Military.com examination in 2018, there were just 26 black pilots out of the 1,404 who flew the F/A-18 and less than 2% of all pilots on jet platforms were black.

Last month the navy revealed a job force to take a look at bigotry, sexism and other discrimination within its ranks.

Lt JG Swegle’s milestone follows Rosemary Mariner in 1974 ended up being the first lady to fly a tactical fighter jet, according to reports.

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