I just have been reading WINGS WOMEN & WAR, by a second cousin (once removed?) named Reina Pennington and I thought you might be referring to women in the Air Force. I have never met Reina but my dad was a big fan and she seems very well qualified for writing on the subjects of women in aviation and war:
Pennington attended college on an Air Force ROTC Scholarship, and was an AFROTC Distinguished Graduate. She was trained as an intelligence officer and earned a regular commission upon her promotion to the rank of captain. Pennington served more than nine years as a Soviet analyst with F-4 and F-16 fighter squadrons at Hill AFB; the Aggressor Squadrons at the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB; the Defense Intelligence Agency; and the Alaskan Air Command. She has flown in the A-4, F-4, F-5, CF-5, F-15, and F-16 (as well as a variety of helicopters, trainers, and transports) on dissimilar air combat training missions and during Red Flag exercises, and in Air Force, Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.
As an Air Force officer, Pennington gave intelligence briefings on Soviet fighter tactics to two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, the Aviation/Space Writers Association, the German Strategy Forum, the United States Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Navy Fighter Weapons School (“Top Gun”). While still in the Air Force, Pennington began publishing articles on Soviet and American aviation in the USAF Fighter Weapons Review and Air Force Magazine.
She has apparently officially changed her first name now:
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Yes! There was a bit of a family dispute over the spelling. My grandmother, Josefa Salazar, said she suggested the name "Reina," which means "queen." My mother said she had already heard the name, and to her it should be spelled like the name Dana. So on the birth certificate, I'm "Rana Jo Pennington." My grandmother had a fit, since "rana" in Spanish means "frog."
--both quotes from her website:
http://www.reinapennington.com/AboutRJP.html
