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Army 1st Lt. Demetria N. Elosiebo conducts preflight checks of rotor blades on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight on Davison Army Airfield, Va., March 15, 2014. Elosiebo, a pilot and platoon leader assigned to Company D Air Ambulance, 1st Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment, is the first female African-American rotary wing pilot in the D.C. National Guard.

Army 1st Lt. Demetria N. Elosiebo conducts preflight checks of rotor blades on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight on Davison Army Airfield, Va., March 15, 2014. Elosiebo, a pilot and platoon leader assigned to Company D Air Ambulance, 1st Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment, is the first female African-American rotary wing pilot in the D.C. National Guard.

Army 1st Lt. Demetria N. Elosiebo conducts preflight checks of rotor blades on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight on Davison Army Airfield, Va., March 15, 2014. Elosiebo, a pilot and platoon leader assigned to Company D Air Ambulance, 1st Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment, is the first female African-American rotary wing pilot in the D.C. National Guard.

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