In the modern armed forces, gender differences are finally erased. Yesterday, January 4, the portal military.com He reported that the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln went on combat deployment under the control of a female commander.
Amy Bauernschmidt took command of the aircraft carrier in August last year, and now she has brought "one hundred thousand tons of democracy" to sea for combat deployment. Carrier Strike Group 3 also includes the cruiser USS Mobile Bay and the destroyers USS Fitzgerald, USS Gridley, USS Sampson, USS Spruance.
Amy Bauernschmidt during her service as a senior assistant to the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is one of two American aircraft carriers (not counting Wasp-type ships) whose wing includes F-35 fighters. Abraham Lincoln also carries F-18 Super Hornets and EA-18 Growlers fighter squadrons on board. The last time Abraham Lincoln went on combat duty in 2019. Then he was in European waters, and then headed to the Middle East, where he operated in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.
Amy Bauernschmidt was born in 1972. In 1994, she graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in ocean Engineering. After graduating from flight school in 1996, Bauernschmidt became a Navy pilot, and later received a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. Amy Bauernschmidt has more than 3,000 helicopter flight hours, was a senior assistant to the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and commanded the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD-22).