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Ritaann Schultz – Yellow Shirt Cleared for Takeoff

In the mid-1970s, Ritaann Schultz breaks barriers for women in the Navy by working on an active P-3 flight line as an aviation boatswain’s mate handler, then gaining flight status and getting NATOPS qualified as a utility air crewman and instructor.


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