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I'm Capt. Michelle Curran.

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I am Thunderbird Six,
which is the opposing solo.

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I had a grandpa who was
a lieutenant in the Navy.

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And I always went through
his World War II trunk

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and tried on uniforms
and looked at postcards.

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He got to travel all over the world.

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And I grew up in a small town.

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And I wanted to travel.

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And I've always been
drawn to flying, I guess.

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I hadn't done a lot of flying
outside of commercially,

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but I loved it.

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So the Air Force seemed
like a natural fit.

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And I also was honestly looking for a

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scholarship for college.

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So, the three things
kind of came together and

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it seemed like a good option.

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Definitely.

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And that's the main reason
I wanted to be on the team.

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The flying is fun, like I said,

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but that's not my main
motivation for joining.

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I think the motivation is I have this

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kind of unique platform
that I can speak to a lot

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of people and inspire them.

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And there's a lot of
kids out there who are

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going to see me and think
that that's a fighter pilot

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that looks like they do.

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And that maybe that's something
they could do that they

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never had even thought
was a possibility before.

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There's two solos, uh, and we really show off

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the max performance of the F-16.

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So, we fly fast, we fly low.

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We do a lot of opposing passes,

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which is exciting for the crowd, and for us.

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The diamond is kind of beautiful and very majestic.

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And we're more shock and awe kind of factor.

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So, it's a fun profile to fly.

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