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MAJOR AMNEH CADET PILOT NANCY
RABABAA HUSSEIN HASSAN

KING HUSSEIN AIR COLLEGE KING HUSSEIN AIR COLLEGE

EMPOWERMENT, EMPOWERMENT

At the time she was interviewed, Major Rababaa When Nancy completed her degree as a chemical
was in charge of 22 female cadets training to engineer, she was at a crossroads: Completing
become pilots, taking care of their military her higher studies or pursuing her dream to
and fitness training at Firas Al-Ajlouni School, become a military officer.
King Hussein Air College in Mafraq. But that
was not her first job in preparing civilian When she had the opportunity to join the Air
women to become perfect soldiers. The mother Force cadet school at KHAC, she did not hesitate.
of three-year-old twin girls had served as the But she did not stop dreaming, doing her best to
commander of the first women Air Force Police become a fighter pilot.
platoon, after graduating as an infantry officer
among the first class ever of women trained at "We have to be fit for this physically demanding
the Military College. career, but I will do my utmost at training to
qualify for the job," she says, echoing the hope
Achieving harmony between her role as a voiced by many of her class mates.
mother and a wife on the one hand, and an
officer, on the other, is not an easy task, but
her so far 13-year military life taught her to be
strong, organized and determined enough to
do it and her turn has come to teach that to the
cadets.

Major Rababaa had been the first on many
occasions and she hoped to see some, if not all,
of her trainees become fighter pilots for the first
time.

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