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Major Heather “lucky” Penney is scheduled to speak at USAFA’s NCLS today. Most remembered for her actions on 9/11 when, (as a brand new 1st. Lt) along with her acting Air Operations Group Commander Maj. Marc H. Sasseville, they were ordered to destroy United’s Flight 93 (currently heading for Washington DC before being downed near Shanksville, PA) by ramming their unarmed F-16’s, a suicide mission.
Major Penney later flew combat missions in the initial campaign of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM as a night SCUD Hunter in the western deserts of Iraq. Major Penney holds Certified Flight Instructor and Airline Transport Pilot licenses. She is the Director of Advanced Pilot Training Programs for Lockheed Martin Government Affairs, co-founder of the District of Columbia Airpower Working Group, and serves as a Major in the Air Force Reserves as the National Chair for Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Rise Above Women Air force Service Pilot (WASP) Program.
Major Penney was interviewed about her thoughts/actions that day by C-SPAN as the 10th anniversary of those attacks neared. Below is the link to that; it’s about an hour.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?300959-1/major-heather-penney-september-11-2001
Major Penney later flew combat missions in the initial campaign of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM as a night SCUD Hunter in the western deserts of Iraq. Major Penney holds Certified Flight Instructor and Airline Transport Pilot licenses. She is the Director of Advanced Pilot Training Programs for Lockheed Martin Government Affairs, co-founder of the District of Columbia Airpower Working Group, and serves as a Major in the Air Force Reserves as the National Chair for Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Rise Above Women Air force Service Pilot (WASP) Program.
Major Penney was interviewed about her thoughts/actions that day by C-SPAN as the 10th anniversary of those attacks neared. Below is the link to that; it’s about an hour.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?300959-1/major-heather-penney-september-11-2001