You can imagine how frustrating it is for me when people tell me, “You’re a lucky girl!” First of all, do they say, “You’re a lucky boy” to my fellow fighter pilots and Thunderbirds? I doubt it. Let’s look at that luck they’re attributing to me. I’m lucky I didn’t come of age before women were finally given permission to fly fighter jets in the military in 1993. Yet even now, three decades later, if you walked into a room full of Air Force fighter pilots, just five out of one hundred would be women. Thirty years for 5 percent.
