Midmorning With Aundrea -August 4, 2020 (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2) The Navy's first black female tactical jet pilot earns her Wings of Gold this week.

And we say farewell to Monroe County Deputy Dylan Pickle who died at a safety checkpoint last week.

The navy's first black female tactical jet pilot - receives her wings of gold this week.

It's a landmark feat she hopes will inspire others.

Cbs's danya bacchus spoke with another pioneer, whose achievement 40 years earlier helped pave the way.

Lieutenant junior grade madeline swegle is making history&as the navy's áfirst black female tactical jet pilot.

"thank you applause "i am reall honored that i get to wear the wings, and fly planes and get to call myself a pilot!"

"hip hip - hooray!

The virginia native graduated from the u.s. naval academy in 2017.

Before flight school - she had never even been in an airplane.

"i was reall excited on takeoff, feeling the exhilaration and getting thrown back in the seat a little bit, that was awesome.//it's fun because it áis difficult."

Currently only 15 black female aviators serve in the navy.

Swegle hopes those numbers change: "i believ representation is important, because we are a very diverse nation!"

"i'm excited!

I jus think this is wonderful!"

Swegle follows in the footsteps of the navy's áfirst black female aviator - brenda e.

Robinson - who earned her wings of gold forty years earlier in 1980.

Recruiters told her she would be a pioneer: "you could chec off two boxes because they hadn't let black people in, they hadn't let women in - all of a sudden this all this is all new stuff."

Robinson says representation is crucial.

She runs aviation camps - to show kids what is possible.

"i believe now, eve after all these years, you can't just have a desire for something - you have to actually see it."

Swegle is set to receive her wings of gold at a ceremony on friday.

After that - the sky's the limit.

Danya bacchus, cbs news.

At at only 24 years old, monroe county deputy dylan pickle had traveled with the national guard and worked to become a law officer.

He died at a safety checkpoint last week.

His friends and co- workers remember him fondly as wcbi's allie martin shows us.

"dylan pickle wa the best of us, you can go your entire life, may only meet one or two people that every single person who meets that person likes, that was dylan."

Oktibbeha county deputy drew jones was in the same national guard unit as dylan.

Both were selected for a 20 man personal security detail in syria because of their experience with law enforcement agencies.

Jones remembers his friend as a tireless soldier.

1 43 "some days we ra missions 7 days a week, somedays every other day, normal people, get tired and worn out and maybe complain.

Dylan never complained, he was never one to shy away from hard work."

After returning from the middle east, dylan used gi bill money to put himself through the police academy in moorhead.

The two men stayed in touch and jones tried to get him to apply in oktibbeha county.

4;11 "i may have begge him to apply, we had an opening at the same time he was at the academy, i even told him, don't know if my wife knew, he could live with us until we found him a place to stay, he said he's from monroe county, this is his home and this is where he always wanted to work."

Lieutenant david mitchell also saw that commitment to dylan's community.

Mitchell is called 'dad' by those on shift a at the monroe county sheriff's department, that's was dylan's time to work.

Mitchell remembers the 24- year-old new deputy always preparing for the chance to go out on patrol and was prepared for his new assignment.

5 44 "when he wa working court and doing transport, when they didn't have any of those duties to do, he would work patrol.

Even on our night shift, he wasn't paid or anything, he would call and say, 'hey, can i come out and work with you tonight.'

Mitchell says shift a is like a family.

It's that family spirit he remembers in his last conversation with dylan.

3 30 "every saturda night, our shift has a pre- shift meal.

We usually meet 30 minutes before, this night, he was a few minutes late, i was picking on him about being late, he sat down, ordered fish and i made the comment, 'the fish will be swimming after awhile, he said, it's ok, you will let me go home boss man, i wish i could go back to that time, i put my arm around him and said, no, not letting you go home, i wish i could put my arm around him one more time."

In monroe county.

Allie martin.

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