Dee Brasseur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dee Brasseur

Canadian military pilot

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1953

Place of Birth: Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

Profession: military officer, aircraft pilot

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Dee Brasseur

  • Deanna Marie "Dee" Brasseur, (born September 9, 1953) is a Canadian retired military officer (Major).
  • She is one of the first three women to earn her wings as a Canadian Forces (C.F.) military pilot for active duty and also one of the first of two female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world. Born in Pembroke, Ontario, a daughter to Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Lionel C.
  • (Lyn) Brasseur and Marie Olive (Aucoin), she joined the Canadian Forces in 1972 as an administrative clerk at a dental unit detachment in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • The following year, she was accepted for commissioning under the Officer Candidate training program.
  • She graduated as an Air Weapons Controller in 1974.
  • In 1979, she was accepted for pilot training.
  • She along with Nora Bottomley and Leah Mosher graduated from Canadian Forces Flight Training School in Portage la Prairie.
  • She received her wings in 1981.
  • In 1988, she took fighter pilot training.
  • In June 1989, following twelve months of training on Canadair CF-5 and McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet jet fighter aircraft, Brasseur and Captain Jane Foster (pilot) became the only two women in the world flying fighters in operational squadrons.
  • Canada was the first country to allow women to fly in a combat role since the Second World War, when the Soviet Union used women pilots.
  • Brasseur was promoted to major in 1989 and posted to National Defence Headquarters (Canada) in Ottawa as director of flight safety, in March 1990.
  • She retired from the military in 1994 with 2,500 hours of jet flying.In 1998, a Maclean's cover story on sexual abuse in the Canadian Forces prompted Brasseur to go public with her own experiences.
  • In the June 1 edition of the magazine, Brasseur claimed that throughout her 21-year career she faced unwanted sexual advances, was raped by her enlisted boyfriend and was coerced into having sex with her flight teacher.In 1998, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
  • In 2007, she was inducted into the Women in Aviation, International Pioneer Hall of Fame.

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