Kara Spears Hultgreen was born in Greenwich, Connecticut back in 1965. In 1981, she graduated from the Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas. After graduation, she attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Aerospace Engineering. Next, she attended the Aviation Officer Candidate School at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
She graduated as a Distinguished Naval Graduate. After graduation, she was assigned to the Training Air Wing 4 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. Following designation as a naval aviator, she flew several different planes, she was among one of the first female pilots to undergo F-14 Tomcat training. Her nickname was “She-Hulk”, as she could bench press 200-pounds. Sadly, she died while attempting to land on the USS Abraham Lincoln, she was 29.
What you may not know about Kara is that she was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, the first “combat qualified” female naval aviator in the U.S. Navy. She was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
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