Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell. Image Credit: Long Blue Line podcast
When Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell was a little girl in Parker, Colorado, she would look to the sky and imagine herself there, not as a passenger, but as the one at the controls.
In 1999, that childhood dream carried her into history as she became the first Black woman to earn fighter-pilot wings in the U.S. Air Force, flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon and later completing combat missions in Operation Allied Force…