Book- Proud to Be : My Life, the Airforce, the Controversy by Kelly Flinn

She is the first woman to pilot a B-52, a charismatic twenty-six-year-old from a proper Georgia family who always distinguished herself--as a fifteen-year-old at U.S. Space Camp as a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy. There, she overcame considerable odds earned coveted position as a combat pilot. Nothing prepared Lieutenant Kelly Flinn for the controversy that erupted when the military began an investigation into her relationship with Marc Zigo, a man who lied to her about his marital status then betrayed her to military authorities. Flinn was forced to resign amid charges of disobeying orders--charges she disputes in this poignant & powerful memoir. This is the story of Flinn's love affair with flying & the love affair that ended her trailblazing Air Force career. This is also the story of a determined young woman fighting for her rightful place in a military establishment run by men, many of whom are not yet ready to accept a female combat pilot. Flinn reveals examples of hypocrisy & sexism in the military that are, by any standard, infuriating. She rose higher and fell harder, but Kelly Flinn's story is universal, and it powerfully dramatizes the fault lines between our private & professional lives. With disarming candor, Flinn takes us inside her world. We feel her exhilaration as she soars through the sky and commands her own plane,we share her horror as the love she dreamed of turns into a nightmare she must battle the military's sex police behind closed doors. SFPF