Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour (born 1973) is a former  officer who was the first  female  in the Marine Corps and the America's first black female combat pilot. She flew the   in the  and eventually served two tours in support of .

Early life and education[]

Armour was born in 1973 in  to Gaston Armour Jr. and Authurine Armour. After her parents divorced, Clarence Jackson married Authurine. Both her father and her  had served in the military - Gaston Armour was a retired major in the , and Clarence Jackson was a former Marine Corps sergeant who served three tours in Vietnam. Her grandfather was a Montford Point Marine, the first African Americans to integrate the Marine Corps between 1942 and 1949.