AFGHAN AIR FORCE 1st FEMALE PILOT LT. RAHMANI velkrö INSIGNIA: God-Country-Duty

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AFGHANISTAN AFGHAN AIR FORCE 1st FEMALE PILOT LT. RAHMANI velkrö INSIGNIA: God-Country-Duty
This is an Original (not cheap import copy) AFG-PAK ELITE PROFESSIONAL AFGHANISTAN AFGHAN AIR FORCE 1st FEMALE PILOT LT. RAHMANI velkrö INSIGNIA: God-Country-Duty You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. The famous Afghanistan God-Country-Duty Insignia. You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. Please note that there are color variations due to settings on different PCs/Monitors. The color shown on your screen may not be the true color. Personal check payment is welcomed.
Niloofar Rahmani
was born in Afghanistan in 1992. Since she was a child, she had a dream of becoming a pilot and spent nearly a year studying English to be able to attend flight school. She enlisted in the Afghan Air Force Officer Training Program in 2010 and in July 2012 graduated as a Second Lieutenant. Two female helicopter pilots during the Soviet era, along with her father, served as inspiration for Rahmani's achievement. Her first solo flight was in a Cessna 182. Wanting to fly larger aircraft, she went to advanced flight school and was soon flying the C-208 military cargo aircraft. Women are traditionally banned from transporting dead or wounded soldiers; however, Rahmani defied orders when she discovered injured soldiers upon landing in one mission. Flying them to a hospital, she reported her actions to her superiors, who imposed no sanctions. When her achievements were publicized, Captain Rahmani's family received threats from both family members and the Taliban, who disapproved of her ambition and career choices. The family has had to move several times but Rahmani is resolute and aims to fly a larger C-130 plane and become a flight instructor to inspire other women. She enlisted in the Afghan Air Force Officer Training Program in 2010 and in July 2012 graduated as a Second Lieutenant.[2] Throughout the program Afghan air force doctors attempted to deem her physically unfit to fly, and was the only female candidate in the program. Two female helicopter pilots during the Soviet era, the Nabizada sisters, along with her father, served as inspiration for Rahmani's achievement. Her first solo flight was in a Cessna 182. Wanting to fly larger aircraft, she went to advanced flight school and was soon flying the C-208 military cargo aircraft.[7] Women are traditionally banned from transporting dead or wounded soldiers; however, Rahmani defied orders when she discovered injured soldiers upon landing in one mission. Flying them to a hospital, she reported her actions to her superiors, who imposed no sanctions. When her achievements were publicized, Captain Rahmani's family received threats from both family members and the Taliban, who disapproved of her ambition and career choices. The family has had to move several times but Rahmani was resolute and aimed to fly a larger C-130 plane and become a flight instructor to inspire other women.[6] She began training on C-130s with the US Air Force in 2015 and completed the program in December 2016, following which she applied for asylum in the United States. Rahmani hoped to eventually become a military pilot for the United States Air Force.
In 2015, the German language newspaper “Bild” named her as the most beautiful pilot in the world. Niloofar Rahmani is the only female pilot in the country’s air force who has participated in several air operations in the country. She also won the 2015 International Brave Woman Award in Washington, DC.
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Asylum
Rahmani was represented by International Attorney Kimberley Motley and was granted asylum in the U.S. in April 2018. She currently resides in Florida along with one of her sisters, who is attempting to gain asylum as well. However, she currently does not work in aviation but instead works as a translator for the Persian, Dari and English languages. Rahmani has been living in Tampa since the US granted her asylum in 2018, while her sister Afsoon is still seeking asylum. Rahmani said she might be safe now, but it’s a hollow feeling. No longer able to fly, she works as a translator between the three languages in which she is fluent: Farsi, Dari, and English. Rahmani dreams of flying planes again; this time for the US Air Force. To do that, she would have to become a citizen first, and, as it’s unclear how long that might take, she worries that her skills will decline in the meantime. Last we know, her parents and most of her siblings remain in South Asia. (Rahmani wouldn’t say exactly where, out of fear for their safety.) Their support for her has never wavered, but because of the constant barrage of threats and violence, they’re still scared for their lives. “It never goes away. Ever,” said Rahmani. “I thank God that I am safe, but always, half of my mind is still thinking about them.” “My path, since I was born, has been difficult,” she said. “Kids here have so much. I never had that kind of freedom. I never got the chance to feel like one of those kids.” Rahmani talked about the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan, bouncing from an explanation of social movements through the country’s history to interpretations of the Qur’an. Her arguments, which she makes eloquently in English, her third language, barely conceal the anger of a woman who has spent her entire life being underestimated. But still she occasionally wondered if she was somehow at fault for what has happened to her and her family. “Sometimes I doubt myself … I wonder if I did something wrong. Did I deserve to be treated that way?”
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