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A Woman's Story On Her Fight To Have The Right To Fly In Combat

National Geographic: Female Helicopter Pilot Took on the Taliban—and the Pentagon

After receiving the Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross, Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar fought for the right to fight.

Mary Jennings Hegar, a former helicopter pilot for the U.S. Air National Guard, is only the second woman, after Amelia Earhart, to get the Distinguished Flying Cross with a Valor Device. So it’s not that surprising that Angelina Jolie is in talks to play Hegar in the movie version of her new memoir, Shoot Like A Girl.

When National Geographic caught up with Hegar by phone at her home in Austin, Texas, the Purple Heart recipient explained why she sued the Pentagon, how she would never have become a pilot if her mother had not left an abusive husband, and how, in 2009, in Afghanistan, everything she had prepared for came together when her chopper was hit by the Taliban.

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WNU Editor: She is only the second woman, after Amelia Earhart, to get the Distinguished Flying Cross with a Valor Device. That says a lot on who and what she is right there.

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