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Then, the RJAF leadership raised the issue with "I TELL THEM, 'IF
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before YOU FAIL, YOU
the US offered to provide training to a selected FAIL JORDANIAN
group of these young women. Ten cadets went WOMEN'.
for the training in the US and three graduated, FOCUS TO
and are now already operational. BECOME A PILOT
AND FORGET
One of them, Pilot Lara Hawawsheh, serves at ANYTHING ELSE
the 8th Squadron located in King Abdullah II FOR NOW"
Air Base. Flying a Blackhawk Mike now, Lara is
an English literature university graduate who RJAF
responded to an announcement calling on young COMMANDER
women to join the RJAF to be trained as pilots. MAJOR GENERAL
YOUSEF
AL HNAITY

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