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She’s a typical 27-year-old woman, except when she goes to work, she straps into F/A-18F Super Hornet. Meagan Varley realized her childhood dream of becoming a naval fighter pilot, flying the F-14 Tomcat in wartime deployment to Iraq. She is featured in the action-packed documentary “Speed and Angels.” check it out at www.speedandangels.com.

As a 2002 US Naval Academy Aerospace Engineering graduate, Varley reported to flight school at NAS Pensacola for Aviation Preflight Indoctrination, and then studied VT-3 at NAS Whiting Field.

Hear Lt. Varley share her inspiring story as she returns to the Gulf Coast for the Women’s Expo, both Friday and Saturday.