 My name is Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Obanek. I've been in the Guard for 22 years, and I'm an A-10 pilot. My dad flew A-7s and F-16s, and that's when I started in my love of aviation, when I was very, very young. I started flying so young when I was two days old, and I flew with my dad, he owned an airplane. And I flew with him all the time, and I just was like, this is what I want to do. And I always wanted to fly the A-10 as well. It was my dream airplane and my dream location. And back then, I mean, women weren't allowed to fly fighters, so I was 16. I was a junior in high school, and I remember that it was really big news that women are allowed to fly in combat finally. I remember that watching it on TV and Les Aspen was the Secretary of Defense, and he made the big announcement, and it changed my life. First of all, the services are to allow women to compete for assignments in combat aircraft. Women pilots in the military are about 20%. Fighters, it's one-tenth of one percent are women. I was the 11th female to fly the A-10. So you're more likely to be a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher than to be a female fighter pilot percentage-wise. At first, it was not with really welcoming arms that women were brought in to fly. And then there was growing pains. I had to be 25% better than the men in order to get the same recognition to the same level. I really wasn't accepted until after I dropped moms in combat and did my job there. And after that, it changed. And then it started incrementally changing for the rest of my career. Nowadays, it's much more accepted. If you can see her, you can be here. Four or five years ago, we got some younger pilots, lieutenants, and I remember telling them a story one day over lunch about some things that had happened back in the day. And they were just absolutely shocked that I would get treated like that because to them, it wasn't weird. It was normal that women could do anything they wanted to do. Most people, as long as you can do the job, legitimately don't care. I'll tell you the guys I helped in Afghanistan to interact and care. I think the world nowadays, especially, is so willing to give anyone a chance that it's an amazing time to be a woman or a minority. And once you tell yourself you're amazing, and once you tell yourself you're amazing enough times, you'll start to believe it.