Black Female Pilot Makes History In Alabama National Guard
Freeman's aviator wings were pinned by retired Col. Christine Knighton, the second black woman in the Department of Defense to earn aviator wings and the first from Georgia. Freeman says Knighton has inspired her since the young lieutenant's days at college; saying "it was only right" to have her do the pinning.
Her assignment as a black female pilot was also applauded by Maj. Gen. Sheryl Gordon, the Alabama National Guard's first female general and the first female to serve as adjutant general for the state.
