Dan Hawkins from the Air Education and Training Command public affairs team

spoke virtually with Capt. Ashley Bird, 33rd Flying Training Squadron

executive officer at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, about her journey to

the military through ROTC at Purdue University, the path to becoming a pilot, the pros and cons of being a force generator instructor pilot, and her personal life being military married to military. Bird also talks about rated diversity improvement, which is the Air Force’s focused, long-term effort to attract, recruit, develop, and retain a diverse rated leadership corps.