While Corvette Captain Gilda Pr\u00fc\u00df became the first woman to hold the position of chief officer on a German Navy frigate last year (see MarineForum 12-2020 page 45), America is already a few steps ahead. Shortly before Christmas, the US Navy proudly announced that a woman will take command of the aircraft carrier USS \"Abraham Lincoln\" next summer. Captain Amy Bauernschmidt will then command one of the Navy's eleven nuclear-powered carriers and up to 5,600 men and women. With their 85 aircraft, the 332 metre-long ships form the combat-ready backbone of the fleet. The \"Abraham Lincoln\" is the fifth ship of the \"Nimitz\" class and was commissioned in 1989. She is based in Norfolk, Virginia.
\nBauernschmidt will take command after completing a number of mandatory courses for aircraft carrier commanders in the areas of nuclear propulsion, flight operations and people management. After graduating from the Naval Academy in May 1994, she trained as a helicopter pilot. For the Navy, she flew the MH-60 Seahawk, commanded the \"Spartans\" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 70 and the amphibious dock landing ship USS \"San Diego\". The \"Lincoln\" is not new territory for her: from 2016 to January 2019, Bauernschmidt was already able to gain experience here as First Officer. She was also the first woman in this prominent position back then. MarineForum wishes her all the best!<\/p>\n
Text: mb<\/em> W\u00e4hrend mit Korvettenkapit\u00e4n Gilda Pr\u00fc\u00df seit dem vergangenen Jahr erstmalig eine Frau die Position des Ersten Offiziers auf einer Fregatte der Deutschen Marine eingenommen hat (siehe MarineForum 12-2020 Seite 45), ist Amerika schon ein paar Schritte weiter. Kurz vor Weihnachten meldete die US Navy stolz, dass im kommenden Sommer eine Frau das Kommando \u00fcber den […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45],"tags":[536,112,394,535],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","tag-amy-bauernschmidt","tag-flugzeugtraeger","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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