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Ready to Kill; AH-1 Super Cobra pilot Katie Horner has blasted the enemy with missiles and a three-barrel 20mm turreted cannon. Being a woman hasn't made her any less lethal.
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THE SCOWLING MAN DECLARED IT LIKE AN ORDER: "YOU DON'T FLY THIS."
He was in his 40s, a civilian. With his knitted brow and jutting
jaw, Marine Capt. Katie Horner recalls, the man seemed half
perplexed, half ticked off. About what, exactly, Horner wasn't sure
at first. Looking back on it now a few years later, she remembers he
was so insistent that passersby began to glance at him. The woman
with him was tugging his arm.
Horner was a first lieutenant at the time, baking in the sun at
an air show next to one of the Marine Corps' light attack
helicopters, both she and the AH-1 Super Cobra on ...
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