Black Female Pilot Makes History In Alabama National Guard

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman has made history as the first black female pilot in the state National Guard’s history. News outlets report that 2nd Lt. Kayla Freeman of Huntsville graduated from Fort Rucker’s Army Aviation School last month, following her 2016 graduation from Tuskegee University where she was enrolled in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Freeman’s aviator wings were pinned by retired Col. Christine Knighton, the second black woman in