Enlisted to flying with the Blue Angels. That’s awesome.

@beckyumphrey2626

6 ай бұрын

Much respect!!!!!!!

That's a hell of a mustang!!! Well done LT!

@raymond3855

4 ай бұрын

Lieutenant Commander

Go Amanda GO and fly high! Thank you for your service! I have noticed at the Pilot introductions, you get the loudest applause!

From enlisted to Blue.Angel. awesome!!!

She's not the 1st female Blue Angel, she is the 1st Blue Angel Demonstration Pilot.

@alphatangomiketv

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for noting that out. You are correct. There are currently 29 female members of the team, according to their website. Amanda is the first Female Jet Pilot.

@trob0914

5 ай бұрын

The Blues have had several females on the team, the first being a PIO in the late 60s-70s when they flew the F4s, I believe. The first female pilot was a USMC C-130 pilot on “Fat Albert”, that was a few seasons ago!🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Saybleu

5 ай бұрын

Katie Higgins flew Fat Albert but……….far the same as a demo pilot.

@iReneerIcharDson-lu6qb

4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@DLee-mi7sw

4 ай бұрын

Give it a break, Eddie…

Awesome!!! Congratulations too you Lt. Amanda Lee! and too All the Women in Aviation!!! GO-NAVY!!!! 👍🏼

So proud of her. Awesome lady. Awesome Angel. Be safe.

Thank you Amanda Lee so awsome!!!!

What an amazing person and aviator…. This is what the American dream looks like, she will never be a “victim”. She is all we can ever strive to be, selfless, driven, holding herself and striving for her personal perfection. Awesome!

Great addition to the BLUES: saw you along with the rest of the Blue Angels last weekend here in Fort Worth, TX; a fantastic breathtaking performance. We LOVE you Amanda and the rest of the BLUES !

This is old. She's now the #4 slot pilot and safety officer😉

@alphatangomiketv

6 ай бұрын

This is correct. Thank you for the update!

@Steve-he1hy

6 ай бұрын

They rotate thoughout thier tour. Uncle flew with them 1962-64

@qtrfoil

5 ай бұрын

And a Lieutenant Commander. This is cribbed from a U.S. Navy video.

@alphatangomiketv

5 ай бұрын

The video was produced in 2023 by the U.S. Navy. You are correct, her current rank is Lieutenant Commander. We have amended the description to show her current rank and included the video credits that for some reason were not added originally by mistake. Most US DoD productions, including this video, are public domain. Thanks for watching!@@qtrfoil

@qtrfoil

5 ай бұрын

@@alphatangomiketv Which is why I said "cribbed" instead of...another word that I would use instead. And, in her second year she flies #4 now, while we're at it.

Awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 🆒️

Proud of you!!! CWO3 Ward Ret

More heartwarming. God go with all you angels.

Good documentary..

Slot pilot is THE toughest job in naval aviation.

Thank you for you service.

Wow, what a pilot! What an awesome aircraft. John P.

I guess that is what we call progress.

this 81 year old Navy veteran salutes you!!

1:35 On the right Judith Neuffer (Judy Bruner). I ran into to her a few times in the 6 months before she passed away in December 2022. She was the first female P-3 Orion commander. She was the first woman to pilot through the eye of a hurricane as part of her flights with NOAA. She also worked for NASA on the Hubble space telescope program, and other projects at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Awesome.

Ugh, she’s so damn amazing.

First of many. Way to represent, thank you for your service.

Bravo Zulu Amanda, I wish I’d had a daughter like you… USMC ret.

@Jeff-lu9wi

3 ай бұрын

Do you know who Kate Higgins is?

Good on you Amanda. They say the skies the limit and you went right through it. Navy Vet QM2SS here.

Its more impressive she started in the E paygrades

Choice

So proud of YOU! I went to see one of the first Blue Angles at Aviation museum in Virginia and to think just now we have a girl. YOU MADE IT! I HOPE we develop a whole Blue Angel Sqadron!

Bravo Zulu!!

She’s the second female blue angels pilot

@MrCyp200la

6 ай бұрын

First to fly the F-18 demo though.

@ItsMeMikey998

6 ай бұрын

@@MrCyp200la Still the second female demo pilot. Media gonna always say first female something workout doing any proper research

@upgrayedd9732

6 ай бұрын

Wrong. Fat Albert pilots aren't demonstration pilots. Amanda Lee is the first female demonstration pilot in Blues history. Facts.

@ItsMeMikey998

6 ай бұрын

@@upgrayedd9732 Technically they are. Bert doesn’t fly in the show as often because of the work load on the current airframe of the super Hercules and since Bert is the support role of the team they’ll typically have Bert ready in case of them need to grab more parts or a spare motor for the rhinos in case of a problem. But there’s at least 10 shows where Bert performs practically everytime.

@dahawk8574

6 ай бұрын

"Proper research": It took the Blue Angels *30 YEARS* from the first female combat fighter pilots to hiring this one and only one to their team. That's *17 YEARS LATER* than the Thunderbirds, who have hired at least half a dozen by now. Congress should have done a formal INVESTIGATION into this more than a decade ago. It is as though absolutely nothing was learned from Tailhook. 1:33 - Just look at these women from *1974.* Think how many of them could have done a competent job as a Blue Angels fighter demo pilot. Way before combat exclusion was lifted. So the full story on Proper Research is that the delay has been more like Half a Century. It's clear that the US Navy does not take the US Constitution seriously. Not when it comes to Equal Protection. Congress FAILED Stalin. Or rather, they failed the MANY women who were fully competent, and had been so long before her.

Good peri

Look closely at her jet and her flight suit and what she says because she is a Lieutenant not a Lieutenant Commander

Who was Kate Higgins?

For some reason I was under the impression that number 3 was traditionally a USMC slot. Please someone clarify this for me.

@alphatangomiketv

6 ай бұрын

Not necessarily. For the current season all 6 F-18 pilots are from the USN. The 3 Fat Albert pilots are from the USMC. www.blueangels.navy.mil/team/officers.htm

@davidsakal449

6 ай бұрын

Not since DEI! The hell with tradition!!

@donjones4719

5 ай бұрын

@@davidsakal449 Not everything revolves around DEI. Maybe your life revolves around being threatened by a changing world but no Blue Angel pilot is going to do aerobatics with his wing 4 feet away from a 3rd rate pilot.

@danmccormack9747

4 ай бұрын

I served with LCDR Lee at VFA-81. Let me tell you something. She's the real deal. She is in the top 3 Hornet pilots I've ever seen. She started as an enlisted sailor now she's flying the slot position, the toughest position in all of naval aviation. She is widely respected throughout the fighter attack community in the Navy, and has earned everything she has.

@BlueWahoosFan

4 ай бұрын

Way to go! I love seeing somebody go from enlisted to officer and excelling like she has done. You rock!

Person love you

How is she the first? Wasn't the first one a Fat Albert pilot?

@Primus54

4 ай бұрын

She’s the first female to fly in the jet demo team. The first female flew the C-130, “Fat Albert”.

I thought the Thunderbirds had a female polit

I love her. ❤

Does this make LT Amanda Lee a Mustang?

I despise wokeness, but these comments are literally the opposite of woke. This girl goes from enlisted to an Angel pilot. Thats fkn awesome no matter what’s between your legs and if you can’t absorb that then it’s on you. This is one position you’re not getting unless you got the skills. Period.

You failed on her rank. Amanda is not an LCDR; she is just a Lt. Not a Lieutenant Commander, which is not her rank.

@pkelly3463

4 ай бұрын

Nope. You failed. As 2024 Airshow season, she is LCDR

I think she is awesome but the timing of her selection…………in the year 2022 is a little, you know…..

I'm sure she's the most qualified too......

@RobertMacCready

6 ай бұрын

I sure hope she's the most qualified. If not, then that puts the whole team in danger.

"LT" not "LCDR".

Bravo Zulu shipmate!

Can't wait to bring my daughter to see you!

I feel safer already. :D

16 years and only a Lieutenant? I know she started as Enlisted, but 16 years to LT seems a looooong stretch.

@gregorymaupin6388

5 ай бұрын

First of all she could have become a flight officer in her late twenties and enlisted at 18, it’s not rocket science

@e.l.norton

5 ай бұрын

@@gregorymaupin6388 She enlisted at 21. She became a pilot at 30, which is right at the age limit for the Navy, which is 27, extendable to 29.

@gregorymaupin6388

5 ай бұрын

@@e.l.norton 18 months minimum before you are eligible for 02, then 4 + 1 so you’re at around 6 years at this point, you are at 10 + 1 to be eligible for 04. Doing the math she’s right on course and if you notice she’s a Lieutenant Commander now and at the time had not been promoted yet.

The sky is the limit for a small number of people with the advent of DEI!

@donjones4719

5 ай бұрын

Not everything revolves around DEI. Maybe your life revolves around being threatened by a changing world but there have been female military fighter pilots since 1997 (1993?). If that was such a big problem, if they kept crashing or getting shot down over Iraq , we would have noticed.

@cwr8618

4 ай бұрын

@@donjones4719you say that, well several times you've said it, yet glossed right over the all females photos they've put up. Why the need to put all x or all y photos up if not for DEI purposes. Give the knight in shining armor routine a break.

Box ticked.

How did her phorias pass. Something off with her eyes. How did she pass medical

Hope the PLAAF and PLANAF are impressed by our DEI forces. We're doomed in a high-end fight.

Good thing they don't have to parallel park the F-18.

Lets just hope that when she drives into the ground she doesnt kill people on the ground.

@donjones4719

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, USAF female fighter pilots, and later USN aviators, have been driving into the ground since the 1990s and no one has noticed.

Now the navy has gone woke??? Trump come back please!!!

@donjones4719

5 ай бұрын

Now!?! The Navy has had female fighter pilots for over 20 years, the USAF for close to 30 years. Yes, flying combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't understand why Trump didn't ground them all when he was president.

@cloudstreets1396

5 ай бұрын

@@donjones4719 he wanted to ground female pilots but his damn generals didn’t listen

oh shit. we all know whats going to happen

BOO.

Great… Another quota hire.

@donjones4719

5 ай бұрын

The Navy has had female fighter pilots for over 20 years, the USAF for close to 30 years. Yes, flying combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't understand why Trump didn't ground them all when he was president. They must have been crashing all over the place and every crash was hushed up on social media because of DEI quota dark state suppression. Welcome to the 21st century. Grasp reality.