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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A man in a military uniform poses for a photo in the cockpit of an airplane.

Air Force Capt. Lloyd “Fig” Newton

In 1976, then-Air Force Capt. Lloyd “Fig” Newton, a member of the Thunderbirds, sits in the cockpit of his plane in Las Vegas. He became the first Black pilot selected to join the Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, in November 1974.

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