
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 22, 1994                   TAG: 9402220161
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

FEMALE PILOT QUALIFIES FOR CARRIER DUTY

Lt. Shannon Workman has become the first female pilot assigned to a Navy combat squadron to win carrier qualification.

Over the weekend, Workman made a dozen daytime and four nighttime landings in her radar-jamming EA-6B Prowler jet on the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"It was a great feeling to finally be done," she said.

Seventy-three aviators qualified for carrier operations last week as the Norfolk-based Eisenhower conducted training exercises off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts.

Starting next month, the Eisenhower will start receiving the first of an estimated 502 women among its 6,000-member crew, said Command Master Chief Petty Officer Bob Conklin. The ship will be the first Navy warship to integrate women since Congress lifted the combat-exclusion law last year. - Associated Press

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB