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It is a improbable Fight Story not like these we’ve hosted earlier than as we welcome Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan’s first feminine aviator and somebody who has overcome great adversity to easily serve her nation. This episode is a superb reminder about how nice we’ve it in America, what our involvement in Afghanistan meant to so many individuals like her, and what perseverance and sacrifice actually appear like for a person and a household.
We’ve hosted so many company who had challenges rising up with homelessness and absent mother and father but one way or the other, regardless of the chances, discovered their solution to the navy. This story is probably going probably the most difficult we’ve heard when it comes to moving into uniform from exile and defying societal norms and is totally probably the most difficult we’ve ever heard relating to how tough and harmful it was to only put on a uniform and serve daily.
Niloofar can be the primary many occasions as one of many first girls recruited into the Afghan navy, in flight faculty, to graduate, and even fly the C-130. She was awarded the US’ Worldwide Ladies of Braveness of Award, met the primary girl, flew with the Blue Angels and, finally, was granted asylum in the USA.
She’s written a improbable e book about her experiences titled Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Feminine Pilot and he or she and her husband (an American veteran) opened an organization referred to as the Afghanistan Tribal Rug Buying and selling Firm the place you may get rugs from Afghanistan whereas serving to assist the ladies who make them.
Regardless of the tragic fall of Afghanistan in 2021, Niloofar’s story has a contented ending and, as she’ll be the primary to level out, isn’t completed being written. Though she didn’t say it, I think we’ll see her flying at some point in an American uniform. Many because of former visitor Ryan “Stinger” Fishel who bought us involved to make this interview occur and, with that, please take pleasure in this inspiring story from anyone who was really a groundbreaker in her area.
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– Open Skies My Life As Afghanistan’s First Feminine Pilot https://www.amazon.com/Open-Skies-Afghanistans-First-Feminine/dp/1641603348
– Afghanistan Tribal Rug Buying and selling Co. https://www.afghanistantribalrugs.com/
– Be taught extra about Niloofar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niloofar_Rahmani
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Present Notes:
00:00 – Intro
00:55 – Visitor Introduction (Niloofar Rahmani )
02:56 – Interview begins
03:20 – Mutual good friend Ryan ‘Stinger’ Fishel
05:43 – First time in a Fighter Jet
08:18 – Favourite Film
09:25 – Childhood
16:24 – Mother and father and battle with Conflict
21:29 – First aspiration to develop into a Pilot
25:21 – Household Cultural background
27:08 – Challenges rising up across the Taliban
32:10 – Nutrisense Advert
33:26 – Lady’s College and Training
35:57 – What Niloofar would have performed not being a Pilot
37:10 – Path to Aviation
44:26 – Qualifying to be a Pilot
01:00:05 – Coaching to be a Pilot
01:07:20 – First time solo flying
01:11:49 – Discrimination for being a Girl
01:29:05 – A tough mission
01:32:29 – Sgrt. Mohammad
01:40:17 – Worldwide Girl of Braveness Award
01:44:48 – Searching for asylum within the U.S.
02:08:30 – Sentimental objects
02:09:48 – Afghanistan Tribal Rug Buying and selling Co.
02:12:06 – Closing ideas
02:13:00 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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